A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Can you get tenure by editing Wikipedia pages? At Auburn University the answer is yes.
Interesting piece on Francis Fukuyama’s break with neoconservatism.
Sam Harris vs. William Lane Craig on the existence of God.
Jesuits at Fairfield University get a new building.
The problem with business majors.
Douglas Jacobsen: A global Easter.
Thomas Kidd reviews Edward Lengel’s Inventing George Washington: America’s Founder, in Myth and Memory.
Complete update on congressional budget cuts to history and archives.
National Museum of American History intern: “I simply could not imagine a career unrelated to history.”
Jonathan Cohn on Obama and the American Dream.
Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe on blogging.
Tim Lacy on “Great Books Liberalism.”
Jonathan Rees’s 3-part series on “post-coverage” in the United States survey course.
Taylorism and why we no longer need teachers.
Gettysburg casino rejected.
No more philosophy at UNLV.
Review of new documentary on Alexander Hamilton.
Obama in Libya. Jefferson in Tripoli.
Slate interview with Adam Goodheart, author of 1861: The Civil War Awakening.
Jonathan Yardley reviews Gary Gallagher’s The Union War.
Barton Swain reviews Joshua Kendall, The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of American Culture.
Harold Holzer chooses the five best Civil War diaries.
RECOMMENDED READING
The Gilder-Lehrman Institute teams-up with Gettysburg College to offer a new master’s degree in American history 
Is Jonathan Falwell the future of Liberty University? 
Confederates at Gettysburg 
David Barton spreads blatant falsehoods about the AP US History course, state history standards, and a bunch of other stuff.
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