A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Historians of Haiti are not happy with The New York Times
Removing the faces of Robert E. Lee and George Washington
The perils of public writing
Jon McWhorter compares gun violence to segregation
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
On Tennessee’s attempt to block “divisive concepts” in the classroom
The filibuster is the reason we don’t have gun control
History at Catholic colleges and universities
Tom Ricks reviews two new books on how we remember the American Civil War
Lewis Lapham interviews Eric Jay Dolin, author of Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
The environmentalist underground
How to write a book’s “Acknowledgments” page
On the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial
The Army comes to Swarthmore
Shehryar Fazli reviews Michael Kazin’s What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
On caring about books