A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Hollywood’s links to the antebellum South
Thomas Chatterton Williams on why he is uneasy with some forms of “anti-wokeness”
Steven Kellman reviews Emma Smith, Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
Rosa Parks: Radical working-class organizer.
Mattie Kahn reviews Susan Wels’s An Assassin Utopia: The Truth Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder
George Washington and the burning of New York
W.E.B. Du Bois at the Worlds Fair
David Greenberg reviews two new books on Ted Kennedy
Don’t throw away the idea of a canon, build a more global one.
Joseph Rezek reviews Kirsten Silva Gruesz,’s “Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas”
African American Studies faculty defend Advanced Placement African American Studies
Trees and college campuses