Sunday night odds and ends

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

On baseball fandom

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

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