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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  May 16, 2021

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Brooke Allen reviews Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity–and Why This Harms Everybody.

Evangelicals call their fellow evangelicals to get vaccinated

For some Americans, history is the story they want to believe

Filing cabinets

Christine Heyrman reviews Emily Midorikawa, Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Women in Search of a Public Voice

Evangelicals are Republicans and Republicans are evangelicals

Rebecca Onion reviews Amazon Prime’s The Underground Railroad

Tom Ginsburg reviews Linda Colley’s The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

Baseball in Japanese incarceration camps

Richard Kreitner reviews Bruce Levine, Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice

Louis Menand talks about his new book The Free World

What should we teach our students about the Constitution?

Dianna Ramey Berry reviews Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

Hattiesburg and Black history

Happy 15th birthday, Boston 1775!

John Turner reviews John C. Calhoun: American Heretic

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