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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  March 2, 2025

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Was Francis Fukuyama right about liberal democracy and the “end of history”?

Tom Nichols on that Trump-Zelinskyy Oval Office meeting. Jonathan Chait here.

Yoni Appelbaum on the Puritan origins of migration

Bethlehem Steel

Joshua Rothman reviews Judith Giesberg, Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

Barack Obama’s failed hope

Leslie’s Retreat

Remembering Ida B. Wells

Jesse Tisch reviews Joseph Epstein’s memoir

Tom Lutz reviews Claire Hoffman’s Sister, Sinner:: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson

The humanities as education for the soul

Thaddeus Stevens and government spending for racial equality

Brad Littlejohn reviews Anton Barba-Kay’s A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation

Public history consulting

Martin Luther and the German Peasant War

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