A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Drew Gilpin Faust reviews Linda Hirshman, The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation
What have we learned from the Black Plague?
What did Jefferson mean by “pursuits of happiness?”
Mary Ann Gwinn reviews Maud Newtown, Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
Jennifer Wilson reviews Jean Yves Fretigne, To Live Is To Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci
Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland.
The question “Who gets to be an American?” has a long history in public schools
“The truth requires a grounding in historical facts, but facts are quickly forgotten without meaning and context“
Closeups of the first Tuesday in November, 2020
The history of Caesarean operations and abortions
More and more Mormons are supporting same-sex marriage
Lifetime Supreme Court appointments in historical perspective
Do Russia and Ukraine share one faith?
Dr. Strangelove and the telephone
Documentaries of “prophetic voices“