A few things online that caught my attention this week:
David Blight: Let the Freedmen’s Memorial stand
The 1918 flu at Harvard
David Blight reviews Colin Woodard, The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
A database of Black American funeral programs
Historians on Richmond’s Robert E. Lee monument
Harriett Tubman used naming in a way to evoke power
Andrew Sullivan on monuments
“If you ever wanted your smartest friend to lead you in spiritual reflection, this is it”
Super-spreader megachurches
Brenda Wineapple reviews Wendell Bird, Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions Under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
Is there a left-conservative tradition in America?
The “strange” decision to topple a U.S. Grant statue on Juneteenth
