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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  May 26, 2024

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?

Misappropriating “puritan”

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“

Coddling undergraduates

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

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