Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

#whystudyhistory @ Twitter

Thomas Frank on the corporatization of the modern university.

Teddy Roosevelt: historian of the War of 1812

Sophie White on material culture and race in colonial Louisiana.

School segregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia–1963

Do millennials hate Bruce Springsteen?

Personal shots of Hurricane Sandy

Smithsonian Museum Day: September 28, 2013

Historians weigh-in on Obama’s higher education plan

Matthew Hale reviews Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years

Lucy Flucker Knox, Peggy Shippen Arnold, and the American Revolution

Daniel Dreisbach reviews Gregg Frazer, The Religious Beliefs of the Founding Fathers

Chicago before the fire 

How to develop a marketing plan for your book.

Richard Cizik on creation care

Boston 1775 revisits the Feinman-Zuckerman debate.

RECOMMENDED READING

A.R. Bernard: What were you thinking inviting Chuck Schumer to your church on Easter Sunday? New York Governor Kathy Hochul visits an evangelical megachurch “It’s possible that up to a third of students at evangelical colleges are not physically at their schools.” Bernard Bailyn: “Historians know how it all came out, but the people of the time didn’t”