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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  April 24, 2022 Leave a Comment

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

The future of The New York Times Book Review

Critiquing Ken Burns on Ben Franklin

The construction company that has removed 23 Confederate monuments

Douglas Brinkley reviews Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

Trumpism in the Ohio U.S. Senate race

There is no “liberal world order“

Thomas Fortune’s 1884 call for a multiracial working-class movement

The former seminarian who is Brazil’s “kingpin” of fake news

The Democrats have a rural problem

The First Americans Museum

Remembering and not remembering what happened in Neshoba County, Mississippi in 1964

“Or other crime” in the 14th amendment and its historic implications

Jedidiah Britton-Purdy reviews Oliver Zunz, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis De Tocqueville

Paul Rosenberg reviews an early historical assessment of the Trump administration

“Third-place” friendships

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