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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  September 19, 2021

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Eric Rauchway reviews Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s Peril.

The N-word in class

Is Djokovic the greatest tennis player of all time?

Chris Gerhz reviews Ethan Schrum, The Instrumental University: Education in Service of the National Agenda after World War II

On hating e-books

Norm McDonald‘s spiritual journey

Productivity culture

George Washington slept here and Joseph Ellis reviews Nathaniel Philbrick’s Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy

The declining number of men on college campuses

John Turner reviews Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Meat Packing America: How Migration, Work and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland

Ken Burns on Muhammad Ali

Katherine Hayhoe: Evangelical Christian, climate scientist

Leah Payne reviews “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”

Colonial America’s climate crisis: 1739-1742

Do colleges and university history departments need to teach more military history?

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