A few things online that caught my attention this week:
“When politicians claim professors like me are the enemy, what are they really attacking?”
Matthew Levey reviews Roosevelt Montas, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
Benedict Arnold’s house
Sean Wilentz reviews Noah Feldman’s The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and Refounding of America
The history of Daylight Savings Time
Chris Lehmann reviews Leigh Eric Schmidt, The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism
The parable of the drowning man in the age of COVID-19
Colin Woodard reviews Alex von Tunzelmann, Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
A story about COVID-19, frontier American history, and cannibalism
John Reeves reviews Allen Guelzo, Robert E. Lee: A Life
How “originalism” influences a gun case before the Supreme Court.
Are critics of the 1619 Project misreading it?
Teaching the Salem Witch Trials
