Sunday Night Odds and Ends

Here are few things online that caught my attention this week:

T.H. Breen reviews John Demos, The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic

Ta-Nehisi Coates on the “case for reparations.”

The National Harbor Observation Wheel

African Americans in World War I and the Civil Rights movement

Andrew Pettegree on newspaper history

Does capitalism have character-and community-building effects?

T. Austin Graham reviews Lawrence Buell, The Dream of the Great American Novel

The apocalyptic strain and the American Dream

Carl Sandburg: The workingman’s poet

Gotham City

“I went to college in Boston“

Randall Balmer on racism and the origins of the Christian Right

J.P. O’Malley reviews Ronald Bayor, Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America

The promise of the digital humanities

Joseph Epstein reviews David Bobb, Humility: An Unlikely Biography of America’s Greatest Virtue

Patricia Limerick on Nicholas Kristof

Christopher Lasch‘s attempt to write a novel

RECOMMENDED READING

More on the plagiarism accusations made against Princeton historian Kevin Kruse More on the censure of Trump lawyer and evangelical pundit Jenna Ellis Reason accuses Princeton historian Kevin Kruse of plagiarism Kenneth Jackson reviews Jon Butler’s God in Gotham