Most Popular Posts of the Last Week

Here are the most popular posts this week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home:

1.  The David Barton Dozen
2.  Gina Barreca on Sloth
3.  Perrin: Is education primarily about making a living or learning how to live?
4.  David Barton: “There’s about a dozen universities…that are right…”
5.  Why Reading Matters
6.  Board of Directors Removes President of Council for Christian Colleges & Universities
7.  Abandoned: Mark Twain Branch of the Detroit Public Library
8.  Social Media and the Historian’s Craft
9.  Maps of the Annual Meetings of the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians
10. Mark Noll Wins Lilly Fellows Book Award

RECOMMENDED READING

In a sermon on “defending truth,” Tim Barton makes multiple false claims David Barton spreads blatant falsehoods about the AP US History course, state history standards, and a bunch of other stuff. The Author’s Corner with Josiah Rector 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.