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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  April 23, 2023

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

John Brown’s farm

Tiya Miles reviews David Waldstreicher’s The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley.

Fred Bauer reviews Michael Walzer’s The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective.

Thomas Jefferson and the “whitening” of Virginia.

The problem with for-profit journalism.

Matthew Sitman reviews the January 6th report.

Shelby Foote: then and now.

Is the Constitution at plutocratic document?

Libraries in World War I American military camps.

Mapping the Underground Railroad.

Carlton Fisk

John-Paul Heil reviews Wendell Berry’s The Need To Be Whole.

The faith of Cesar Chavez

Why was Dr. Samuel Prescott on horseback after midnight on April 19, 1775?

The pluralist backlash to Christian nationalism.

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  1. Stephen says

    April 23, 2023 at 7:51 pm

    Let’s see the Christian Nationalists fit Dr Prescott’s April 18, 1775 behaviors into their Purity Ring culture. “Everyone knows that all the Founders and Patriots were Christians”.