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Sunday Night Odds and Ends

John Fea   |  November 3, 2013 Leave a Comment

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

#whystudyhistory

“a sustained and quiet read”

Theology as a core liberal art, even if you don’t believe in God

Are you using Google’s Ngram?

Are kids losing interest in baseball? 

Spielberg’s next Doris Kearns Goodwin movie

Will there be a new Springsteen album in January?

Writing for free.  And here.

A cautionary tale about Twitter in the classroom

James Oakes reviews Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

Why Solomon Northup (12 Years a Slave) and not Frederick Douglass?

Tracy McKenzie’s final thoughts on a trip to Gettysburg

Fundamentalist dress codes 

Tocqueville and individualism

Catholics and Evangelicals on technology

How the Christian Right won 

Dunmore’s Proclamation

Jackson Lears on the Kennedy family

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LONG FORM: Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly Should History Make You Feel Bad? Education for Freedom Default ThumbnailOn the slaveholder Jonathan Edwards and the Christians who read him

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