A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Letters from a New Jersey Loyalist
How should we love America?
Where is First Things headed?
Devotion. Unity. History. Fighting. But not: Democracy. Justice. Individuality. Peace.
The Presbyterian Church of America adopts the Nashville Statement
Rick Atkinson discusses his proposed American Revolutionary War trilogy
Technology in the classroom
The best 50 memoirs of the past 50 years
George Plimpton and fireworks
The editors of The New York Review of Books offer a “historical tribute” to Trump’s “Salute to America”
The American founding father from Switzerland
A visit to a charismatic worship service
David Blight on Douglass’s “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?“