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Sunday Night Odds and Ends

John Fea   |  September 6, 2015

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Salem

The Museum of the Bible

Defining public humanities

Company towns

Should we use “United States” instead of “Union” when we teach the Civil War?

College-educated millennials are becoming nuns

1815 map of George Washington’s university

Vintage airline posters

Thomas Jefferson rented slaves

New books in African American intellectual history

More on Evangelicals and Trump

What is Labor Day?

What as found at an archaeology dig at the Red Bank battlefield?

Saul Cornell on originalism

Jon Rowe on David Barton’s latest “word salad.”

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  1. Tom Van Dyke says

    September 7, 2015 at 4:55 am

    Should we use “United States” instead of “Union” when we teach the Civil War?

    No. That's Orwellian. And who is “we?”

    Heh heh.

  2. Tom Van Dyke says

    September 7, 2015 at 4:36 am

    This blog is so informative, John. 😉

    “You can major in Game Boy if you know how to bullshit.”—PCU [1994, Universal Studios]

    http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/14/pcu-20-years-later-5-ways-the-film-predicted-the-future/3/

    20 years on, we've made major progress in the humanities. Now you can just major in bullshit.

    Defining public humanities

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