A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Happy Mothers Day!
Liz Covart on “History Communicators“
John Turner on Timothy Gloege’s Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. An interview with Gloege is here.
Americanism and German family farms
Should anthropology course fulfill an American history requirement?
E,J. Dionne on Senator Chris Coons’s defense of religious liberty at a meeting of The Secular Coalition
Theology courses at Notre Dame
James Oakes on the end of slavery in America
Is Mike Huckabee the last culture warrior? George Will on his crusade to Christianize America
“Rules for Christian Mechanics and Merchants,” circa 1840
R.B. Bernstein reviews Joseph Ellis, The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution: 1783-1789
New resources for teaching history from the AHA “Tuning Project”
What!? Tenured Radical calls it quits
Tracy McKenzie on the differences between “heritage” and “history.”
Museums in times of social upheaval and civic unrest
Where are all the National Park Service sites devoted to Reconstruction?
Should anthropology course fulfill an American history requirement?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/05/07/history-and-anthropology-departments-sacramento-state-u-square-over-new-gen-ed
“This has just been a travesty,” said Joseph A. Palermo, a professor of history who opposes the university’s recent decision to allow an anthropology course on cultural diversity in the U.S. to fulfill a state requirement that students complete “comprehensive study” in American history, institutions and ideals, including those relating to the Constitution.
The only sane one there, and he's a self-described Howard Zinn fan.
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