A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Jill Lepore on writing
Matthew Stewart talks about Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
Robert Tracy McKenzie on the liberal arts
An interview with Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, author of The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
An interview with Mark Cheathem, author of Andrew Jackson, Southerner
Where do history majors get jobs? Inside Higher Ed reports on it here
New Robert Livingston document
James Oakes on abolitionism
Kristof: Don’t dismiss the humanities
John Turner reviews Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
William Deresiewicz responds to his critics
Republicans vs. the AP U.S. History exam
Religious faith and educated people
Are we spending more money on bagged ice than ALS research?
The Wonder Years: An oral history
RECOMMENDED READING
Eric Metaxas believes Rick Warren, Tim Keller, and Andy Stanley are “Hitler’s favorite kind of pastors” 
Is Ketanji Brown Jackson an evangelical Christian? 
What kind of person treats someone like this and then brags about it during an interview at an evangelical church? 
Who were Charles I and Charles II?
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