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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  February 19, 2023

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

African American historian Henry Louis Gates has a word for Ron DeSantis.

Mary Wollstonecraft on marriage.

Inside Fox News on the night of the 2020 presidential election. And here. And here.

African religious artifacts found at Harriet Tubman’s birthplace.

Abraham Lincoln’s true love.

Matt McManus reviews Gary Dorrien’s American Democratic Socialism.

Book TikTok?

The “Know Your Enemy” podcast on Philip Rieff and therapeutic culture.

Abortion and the limits of choice.

Nationalizing the railroads.

Elaine Elinson reviews Kerri Greenidge, The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family.

The Erie Canal

Mourning presidents

Rebecca Dudley reviews Bruce Ragsdale, Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery.

The case of the Post Office worker who wanted time off to worship.

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