A few things online that caught my attention this week:
What social media can learn from the coffeehouse
Ross Douthat, Hootie and the Blowfish, and the end of history
Randall Kennedy reviews Thomas Ricks, Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
David Waldstreicher reviews Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & JIm Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism
The founding of the College of William & Mary and the taxation of colonized Indian lands
Ben Burgis reviews Adolph L. Reed, Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Sean Wilentz reviews Kris Manjapra, Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
Native American hair clippings at Harvard
Reflecting on the bicentennial of the Texas Rangers
Matthew Stanley reviews Jeremi Suri Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
Fergus M. Bordewich reviews Edward J. Larson, American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1763-1795
Marilyn Robinson on the Bible and science
Is the college essay dead?