Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Obama kills at the White House Correspondents dinner.

Drew Gilpin Faust on “change management” and the Civil War.

William Hogeland on the “futility of teaching civics.“

More from Jonathan Rees on teaching the history survey course without a textbook.

Tim Lacy on teaching history backwards.

Barack Obama’s mother.

CNN Belief Blog is all over the beatification of John Paul II.

Stanley Fish and the perfect sentence.

The midnight ride of Dr. Samuel Prescott.

The gutter of Jefferson’s Bible.

Christian Scholars Review celebrates 40 years.

The nation’s first official monument is being restored.

Did George Washington say “So Help Me God?” 

Thomas Bender reviews Maya Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.

Andrew Sullivan: World’s Best Blogger.

Joan Waugh on the South’s “lost cause.” 

Eric Foner reviews Gary Gallagher’s The Union War.

RECOMMENDED READING

LONG FORM: Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly Bringing the Bible to the Jim Crow South On the slaveholder Jonathan Edwards and the Christians who read him Anyone who wants to believe that Independence Day is a Christian holiday should read Frederick Douglass’s “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?” David Barton speaks at First Baptist-Dallas.