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Sunday nights odds and ends

John Fea   |  October 17, 2021

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

New research shows a link between lynchings and Confederate monuments

Authors are avoiding Goodreads

George Will on Allen Guelzo‘s new biography of Robert E. Lee

Rod Dreher on the manliness of John Zmirak and Eric Metaxas

The Atlantic covers the Babylon Bee

Billy Joel

The enslaved child in a portrait of Elihu Yale

A New England town historian

The 1848 Project?

Thomas Kidd on the evangelical mind

Debunking the Black Robed Regiment

The Brooklyn Public Library and the Kingdom of God

John Hopkins University’s president on universities and democracy

The president of Princeton University defends elite education

Should we still read Jonathan Edwards?

NPR and the culture wars

A history Ph.D working in local news

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