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Sunday Night Odds and Ends

John Fea   |  September 15, 2019

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Freedom of speech at liberal arts colleges

Tips for academics who want to do freelance writing

Books

Learn your students’ names.

Andrew Sullivan on the 1619 Project

Ken Burns on his new documentary on country music

Does Jill Lepore have “Schlesinger-like aspirations?”

Three new books on labor history

The Bills and Jets are losers

Local culture

Sarah Churchwell reviews Daniel Okrent, The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

Reenacting an 1811 Louisiana plantation rebellion

Liberty University students protest the behavior of their president

Evangelical decline?

Wendell Berry: dissenter

Confederate monument fans as idol worshippers

Podcasting and public history

Alex Trebek‘s religious life

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