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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  February 9, 2025

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Has capitalism has killed the humanities?

Book blurbs

Peter Kolchin, historian of slavery, RIP

David French on Trump and the American founding

The son of an evangelical ministers came out. Here’s what happened.

Robert Penn Warren’s daughter reflects on the loss of the family homestead.

The Super Bowl and the soul of football

Vincent Lloyd reviews Te-Nehisi Coates’s The Message

Black mothers reuniting their families after the Civil War.

Tech bros and Jesus

Historian Barbara Weinstein on the AHA’s Gaze “scholasticide” vote.

Bonnie Kristian reviews the Anabaptist Community Bible

The slam dunk

Thomas Aquinas’s skull

Historicizing Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town”

The founding fathers and Canada

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