A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Russell Jacoby on “Object Studies.”
Will America ever move beyond the culture wars?
How to get the most out of an academic conference
The AHA and digital scholarship
Ross Douthat on Pope Francis and the future of the Catholicism
Do we still need libraries?
Matthew Crawford’s argument against the Enlightenment
Shopping malls and the myth of American progress
Tenured Radical weighs in on the recent meeting of the Organization of American Historians in St. Louis.
Did you see Michael Eric Dyson’s attempted take-down of Cornell West?
Jackson Lears reviews William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life.
Kevin Kruse discusses his new book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Abandoned settlements inside national parks
More on slavery and capitalism
Jim Sleeper on Fareed Zakaria on liberal arts
Attention graduate students in American history preparing reading lists for comps: Seven good books on Reconstruction
Elizabeth Fenn wins the Pulitzer for Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People.
Mark David Hall reviews Matthew Stewart’s Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
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Thanks for the plug for Mark David Hall's “A Failed Attempt at Partisan Scholarship,” a review of Matthew Stewart's “Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic,” which has been lionized by the secular media and some academics.
http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2015/04/hall-on-stewarts-natures-god.html
I hope it will get as much pub as Stewart's questionable whitewash of America's Christian influences. [Doubtful.]
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