A few things online that caught my attention this week:
#whystudyhistory on Twitter
Henry Louis Gates on 12 Years a Slave
Alabama senator is outraged that the National Endowment for the Humanities funds the study of the humanities
Alan Wolfe on Richard Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style
Tech intellectuals
Richard Rodriguez discusses his new spiritual autobiography
New books on evangelicals and intellectuals
Historians and networks
Bob Blaisdell reviews Jill Lepore, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Christy Mathewson on baseball as a thinking man’s game
Blogging as a teaching tool
Mark Edwards reviews Molly Worthen, Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
Boston 1775 reviews William Warner, Protocols of Liberty: Communication Innovation and the American Revolution
Liz Covart at “Uncommonplace Book” is looking for guest bloggers
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