A few things online that caught my attention this week:
The New York Times covers Eric Foner’s new book Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad Wendy Smith reviews it here.
Lewis Lapham talks with Doris Kearns Goodwin about The Bully Pulpit
Selma to Montgomery freedom songs
Stephan Beck reviews Andrew Levy, Huck Finn’s America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece
Robert E. Lee and the Confederate flag. Kevin Levin on the piece here.
John Turner reviews Luke Harlow, Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky
Peniel Joseph on the “Selma” backlash
Steven Donghue reviews Phyllis Lee Levin, The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams
Collecting at the National Museum of American History
Dime novels at the American Antiquarian Society
Steven D. Smith on the fate of religious freedom
Paul Harvey reviews T.J. Tomlin, A Divinity for All Persuasions:Almanacs and Early American Religious Life
Early drafts of MLK speeches
Two new books about pietism
Old Soviet anti-alcohol posters
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