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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  November 6, 2022 Leave a Comment

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Why Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid for the birth of Julia Roberts

Twice before in history, the Supreme Court has allowed itself to become an arm of one political party

The heirs of Sarah Palin

Waffle House

Teaching history through film

Democrats and working class voters

Ed Simon reviews Peter Manseau’s The Jefferson Bible: A Biography

Machiavelli on history

Costica Bradatan reviews new books on “argument” and “civility”

Robert Walker Sterling reviews Peniel E. Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century

American history through six photographs

The steel mills are gone. But the socialist parks are still there.

Has Donald Trump influenced Wendell Berry?

Human hibernation

Charles Mathewes reviews Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism and Its Discontents

One book that explains American politics today

Martha Southgate reviews RJ Young, Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

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