Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

SAVE THE TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY GRANTS!

How to break into the historical preservation field.

On editing.

Cleveland Plain Dealer interview with Clarence Clemons

Symposium on the Battle of Princeton.

Nice garden shed.

Kim Phipps is chair of the board of directors of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.  Congrats!

Presidents and providence.

The other rides of Paul Revere.

New look for the Front Porch Republic.  It will take some time to feel comfortable navigating the new site.

New film on Jews and baseball.

George Washington vs. Paul Bunyan grudge match.

Teaching the history survey without a textbook.

Thomas Hart Benton reviews Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Academically Adrift:  Limited Learning on College Campuses.

List of Borders Bookstores that are closing. And how Borders lost its soul.

RECOMMENDED READING

Anti-Semitism at Flood Tide On the slaveholder Jonathan Edwards and the Christians who read him The enchantment of baseball The Author’s Corner with Sandra Moats