A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Nineteenth-century missionaries to the Ottoman Empire
The “Mitt Romney martyr thesis“
Alberto Polimeni reviews two new books on populism
Arlington Cemetery‘s Confederate monument
Princeton Theological Seminary has a new president
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein reviews Jacob Soll, Free Market: The History of an Idea
Civic education and college curriculums
Claire Potter reviews Nicole Hemmer’s Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
The history of writer’s block
Hidden treasure at Boston Common?
Charles Sherrod, RIP
The “myth” of colonial America