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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  February 4, 2024

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Abraham Lincoln’s 1838 speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, IL.

Yellowstone National Park’s winterkeeper.

Darryl Hart and Menckeniana

Do we need more Hubert Humphrey liberalism?

Lost photos of Black America

Why we need local columnists.

Black women unionists in the Confederacy.

On grade inflation.

The party of Lincoln or the party of Calhoun?

Gerald K. Smith and Christian nationalism

History and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Groves of Academe and today

This young Black conservative rejects DEI

How to comment on social media

Black singer-songwriter Ted Jarrett

What if Nixon won in 1960?

“Americans who most reap the benefits of marriage are the same class who get to declare monogamy passé and boring.”

MAGA vs. Taylor Swift fans

A review of three new books on Henry David Thoreau

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