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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  March 13, 2022 Leave a Comment

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Cancel culture, 1832 style.

A writer talks about fear of professional exile if she writes about certain topics.

A socialist critiques the U.S. National WWII Museum

What can we learn about American withdrawal from Afghanistan by studying America’s early 19th-century retreat from Tripoli.

John Hay reviews Robert Gross, The Transcendentalists and Their World

Want to understand Ukraine. Here are nine good books.

Claire Potter reviews two new books on Fannie Lou Hamer.

Eric Foner reviews Roger Lowenstein, Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

Is there a political “center“?

H.W. Brands reviews Anne F. Hyde, Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West

Ernest Shackleford’s Endurance is found

Peter Kaufman reviews Ronald Daniels, What Universities Owe Democracy

Timothy Noah reviews two new books on the history of the Democratic Party

Free speech at Princeton?

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton appropriates Andrew Jackson

Jack Christian reviews Erin L. Thompson, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of Public Monuments

A photo essay of Jim Crow America

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