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A few things online that caught my attention this week: Historians of Haiti are not happy with The New York Times Removing the faces of Robert E. Lee and George Washington The perils of public writing On baseball fandom Jon […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Read more than you write The origins of “The Anxious Bench” blog The American debate over abortion occurs within some non-debatable parameters Racist murders in 19th-century America Did Christian nationalism […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Kathryn Hughes reviews Emma Smith, Portable Magic: A History of books and their Readers David Bell reviews Joan Wallach Scott, On the Judgment of History How Roe “warped” America. Molly […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: The anti-conservative Republican Party Inside Tucker Carlson’s brain Evangelicals against Dungeons and Dragons The politics of camping More on Harvard and slavery Matthew Mutter reviews two new books on the […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: The future of The New York Times Book Review Critiquing Ken Burns on Ben Franklin The construction company that has removed 23 Confederate monuments Douglas Brinkley reviews Richard Cohen, Making […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week:T The fate of public intellectuals on the American center left Why do history books written by men sell better than history books written by women? More on the role of […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: What does the right want? The moral indifference of the American people Francis Fukuyama defends liberalism Does liberalism need an external enemy? George Will’s opening day quiz The long history […]

The cult of Stalin intellectuals Teaching with history with Howard Zinn’s People’s History Integrating college hoops What did Jefferson mean by the pursuit of happiness? Thomas Meaney reviews Jean-Yves Frétigné, To Live Is To Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Drew Gilpin Faust reviews Linda Hirshman, The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation What have we learned from the Black Plague? What […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Forth Worth’s KKK building Reading Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism Christians who pray for Putin Will the Ukraine War end the so-called “Age of Populism?” Lyman Stewart, oil, and […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Cancel culture, 1832 style. A writer talks about fear of professional exile if she writes about certain topics. A socialist critiques the U.S. National WWII Museum What can we learn […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: In Ukraine, the future is at stake. So is the past. Smart people offer suggestions for fixing American democracy Sitting Bull and the creation of Yellowstone National Park Michael Roth […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Are Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen, and Gladdin Pappin engaged in a what H.R. McMaster once called “strategic narcissism”? The conservative activism of Clarence and Ginni Thomas David Brooks: Trump must […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: School districts are censoring Black voices. How W.E.B. Du Bois might help us process this. The founder of Black History Month Tom Brady for Senate? Reading Thucydides in a pandemic […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Three major voices behind the national conservative movement Who tells our story? Previewing the 2022 meeting of the Conference on Faith and History Mapping redlining An interesting take on the […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: “…when it comes to abortion, the left can speak of personal choice in overly simplistic ways” Reading the classics with love Wilt, Joe, or Simone? Christian horror movies Early American […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Brian Rosenberg reviews Louis Menand’s review of Roosevelt Montas’s Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Thomas Chatterton Williams reviews […]