Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

What is “American” in American religion?

The Southern Intellectual History circle

An example of how the way of improvement can lead us home

Dream Baby Dream

The Civil War at 150: Memory and Meaning

A Seinfeld reunion?

Eric Foner reviews Douglas Egerton, The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era

Pete Seeger’s communism

A history of Olympic fashion

Haberski:  Evangelism as intellectual history

Google images makes it easier to use Creative Commons

Obama and American civil spirituality

Race and 19th-century facial hair

Tenured Radical writes in chunks

Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Obama presidency and the history of African-American politics

Liz Covart’s Wednesday link roundup on writing

The Left Behind movie is almost here.  A clip

Pietist Schoolman sports a beard

RECOMMENDED READING

We Can Only Dream Together What is an intellectual? Some thoughts on Ibram X. Kendi’s piece in The Atlantic Most critics of critical race theory have no idea what they are talking about “It’s possible that up to a third of students at evangelical colleges are not physically at their schools.”