A few things online that caught my attention this week:
David Levering Lewis searches for his family history
Ross Douthat on why he is a Christian
Marjoleine Kars reviews Lynn Hunt, The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
Bewilderment and America’s past
Who is John Conness and how he defended the 14th amendment in the 19th century
Cults and the American dream
Jimmy Carter cartoons
What is a university for?
Kate Masur talks about her book Freedom Was in Sight!: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington D.C. , Region.
Vince Bacote’s journey into Black evangelicalism
The tallest man to fight in the Civil War
How Jimmy Breslin and Langston Hughes responded to the assassination of Malcom X