A few things online that caught my attention this week:
George Will on Princeton University’s John Witherspoon statue
Joanne Freeman provides some context for debacle in the House of Representatives this week.
Carlos Lozado reviews Kevin Kruse’s and Julian Zelizer’s Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
“Learning outcomes” are taking over the universities
E.J. Dionne on Kevin McCarthy‘s election as Speaker of the House
Bill Kristol on the McCarthy speakership
A new documentary on Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb
An early American online magazine thinks through its social media strategy
Why cultural criticism is necessary
Americans and the embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln
How ESPN handled the Damar Hamlin collapse
Jim Downs reviews Carole Emberton, To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
A guide to Christian nationalism
Comparing Speaker McCarthy with Speaker Gillett (1923)
The American Historical Association on the broadening of the definition of historical scholarship