Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

For all mother’s who have sons.  Happy Mother’s Day.

Drew Faust’s Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (full transcript).

What are the digital humanities?

David Blight gives us a glimpse of his forthcoming book, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.

And Blight on Frederick Douglass’s response to the early years of the Lincoln presidency.

Urban legends your pastor may have told you.

Randall Stephens on David Barton.
 
Feminism and the 1950s’ housewife.

Joanna Brooks: David Barton should submit to peer review.

Gina Barreca profiled.

Thomas Kidd on Benjamin Irvin’s Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors.

New research fellows at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Daniel K. Williams reviews David Sehat’s The Myth of American Religious Freedom.

Norman Mailer’s Brooklyn apartment is for sale for $2.5 million.

Why place matters in higher education.

Robert Benne on the trials of American Lutheranism.

The “foolishness” of Civil War reenactors.

A history of the “Mom” tattoo.

Nicholas Basbanes reviews Joshua Kendall’s The Forgotten Founder: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture.

RECOMMENDED READING

David Barton spreads blatant falsehoods about the AP US History course, state history standards, and a bunch of other stuff. In a sermon on “defending truth,” Tim Barton makes multiple false claims Recovered from the archives: “An Open Letter to the Students of Charis Bible College” 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.