Most Popular Posts of the Last Week

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

1.  Gina Barreca on Sloth
2.  Why Reading Matters
3.  “American Creation” Migrates to “Old Life” or Would George Whitefield Think George Washington Needed to Be Converted?
4.  Humanities as a “House of Pain”
5.  Breaking News: David Barton Will Not Run for U.S. Senate
6.  Sunday Night Odds and Ends–November 3, 2013
7.  The Fate of the Humanities
8.  Picture of the Day
9.  Picking for the American Antiquarian Society Library
10. Saving Our Democratic Soul

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. 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. David Barton’s son talks slavery and Black history with sportswriter Jason Whitlock. It is a train wreck.