A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Popular writing should be as rigorous as scholarship–but much easier to read
Ibram X Kendi on the Fourth of July
A funny critique of Hamilton
Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue
Wilfred McClay on profanity
When African Americans co-opted July 4th
Grant Wacker reviews Daniel Vaca, Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America
The ending of Hamilton
Frederick Douglass on monuments
Clyde Haberman reviews David Paul Kuhn, The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working Class
The Lincoln Memorial was made for this
Should Teddy Roosevelt come down?
