A few things online that caught my attention this week:
The first and only impeached Supreme Court justice.
Monetizing historical footage
Michael Fletcher reviews Theresa Runstedtler, Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA
California is boosting its offerings in African American history.
Ilyon Woo reviews Gregory May, A Madman’s Will: John Randolph, 400 Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom
Danielle Allen on “power-sharing liberalism“
A guy found an underground city in his basement.
Mark Oppenheimer reviews Sarah Blakewell,’s Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
Jeff Sharlet on the church of Trump
He’s been making his living selling books to The Strand bookstore for thirty years.
Amy Fusselman reviews Alexandra Petri’s Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents Made Up
The Fort Pillow massacre of 1864
Why DeSantis shouldn’t run for president.
David Cressy reviews Jonathan Healey, The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689