A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Great American writers and misery
Early Quaker spirituality in one map
Alan Ryan reviews Oliver Zunz, The Man who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
“History will accept only one Jan. 6 narrative. This committee has it.”
Should Civil Rights activists get veterans status?
John McGreevy reviews Michael Kazin’s What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
Peter Wehner on the moral collapse of the GOP
The Rapid City flood and the environmental justice movement
Women’s tennis and Cold War diplomacy
Historian Paul Finkelman on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law
Andreas Petrossiants reviews Paolo Sollier’s memoir Kicks, Spits & Headers: The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidential Footballer
“Struggle” in the American history classroom
Doug Mastriano and the AR-15