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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  February 13, 2022 Leave a Comment

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Who would win a fight between a Bengal tiger and a ram?

19th-century chimney sweepers

Lynching postcards

William G. Thomas reviews Linda Hirschman, The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

What if Russell Kirk and Tom Hayden took in a Tigers game together?

What E.B. White wrote to Xerox in 1976

Protestantism and immigration

The legacy of redlining

Christ Lehmann reviews Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath, The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

Lisabeth Cohen reviews James R. Gaines, The Fifties: An Underground History

Do we really have a “wall of separation” between church and state

What happens when kids learn about slavery?

Growing-up in Jim Crow America

Atar Hadari reviews Rebecca Davis’s The Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics

Walter Johnson reviews A.J. Blaine, White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret

George Washington and the flexible cabinet

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LONG FORM: Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly Two divergent explanations of Southern inequality Default ThumbnailOn the slaveholder Jonathan Edwards and the Christians who read him Separation of Church and State, China Style

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