A few things on line that caught my attention this week:
Was George H.W. Bush the “last WASP president?”
How to get into a history Ph.D program
Andrew Delbanco reviews Joanne Freeman’s The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Did George H.W. Bush “lead the GOP toward evangelicalism?”
Civility: duty or trap?
A nice collection of political maps
The red kettles of the Salvation Army
Linda Killian reviews Nick Bunker’s Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
George H.W. Bush and the “religion card”
Why progressives need both populism and religion
Obsolete history textbooks?
Thoughts on the decline in the number of history majors
David Blight on the childhood of Frederick Douglass
Some advice on networking at conferences