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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  July 9, 2023

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

David French on MAGA America

Richard Price: 18th-century dissenter

Ornamental hermits

The Yankee peddler

A defense of the Cornel West presidential candidacy

Culture wars, bipartisanship, and our understanding of the American Revolution

American barbecue

Alan Jacobs on Thomas Pynchon as “America’s theologian”

Allen Guelzo reviews Joshua Seitz, Lincoln’s God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation

The hottest days in world history

Historian Lois Banner imagines what her career would have looked like if she were black. The Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians apologizes.

Sam Pollard and Black baseball

Is life getting better?

Is American really ready for its 250th birthday?

Why Rachel Swarns, author of The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church, still goes to mass.

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