A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Historian Michael Kazin on Labor Day
The difference between economists and historians
“When in this story does Michael Corleone really become an American?”
Oliver Cromwell in America
Mormons respond to racism at Brigham Young University
Jacob Heilbrunn reviews Nicole Hemmer, Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s. Gabriel Debenedetti reviews it here.
Eric Foner reviews Donald Yacovone, Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
Why doesn’t Trump fill Christians with rage?
When Mikhail Gorbachev was a Pizza Hut spokesman
Black voices at James Madison’s Montpelier
Debates over racial history in Virginia schools
Just to not that the piece on “the differences between economists and historians” deals little with what economic historians actually do, apart from a straw-man swipe at Fogel and Engerman’s half-century old work. In fact, it’s hard to tell just what they’re arguing against, or what makes their approach better.