A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Prophecy and the death of Anne Boleyn
Pennsylvania and potato chips
Elizabeth Clare Prophet was a prophet
What do editors do?
Chris Klimek reviews Steven Hyden’s There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’ and the End of the Heartland
Norway’s “demon wall“
Emma Willard‘s maps of time
Rachelle Hampton reviews Mike Hixenbaugh, The Came for the Schools: One Town’s Fight Over Race and Identity, and The New War for America’s Classroom
John S. Jacobs‘s slave narrative
America’s first board game
Gaza protests are only happening at elite colleges
How Christianity created rock ‘n’ roll
The Trump enigma
Jennifer Szalai reviews Kim Wagner’s Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History