A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Michael Sean Winters reviews James Davison Hunter’s Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis
The least important election of a lifetime.
COVID-19 lockdowns and nostalgia
Photographs and social justice in American history
Alan Taylor reviews Allan Greer, ed., Before Canada: Northern North America in a Connected World
Casey Michael reviews Alan Taylor, American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
What we don’t know about Indian removal
The 17th century space race
Chaos at the 1924 Democratic National Convention
Danielle Amir Jackson reviews Tiya Miles, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People. Jennifer Szalai reviews it here.
Steven Mintz on the westerns
David Marks Shribman reviews Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson, ed., North of America: Canadians and the American Century, 1945-1960.
12 New York Times writers assess the Trump-Biden debate
Heather Cox Richardson on the Biden-Trump debate.