A few things online that caught my attention this week:
“The first think you’ll notice is the quiet”
Walt Whitman and the Civil War
Douglas Brinkley reviews Thomas Frank, The People, NO: A Brief History of Anti-Populism
Susan-Mary Grant reviews Brian Holden Reid, The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
An art historian reflects on monuments
When John Lewis forgave George Wallace
The Army’s Jim Crow forts
Matthew Sutton talks religion and spies
The masks of 1918
82 cases of COVID-19 at a Christian camp
Writing “below the line”
Randall Stephens reviews Peter Thuesen, Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather
A liberal arts president on higher ed in a pandemic
The founding fathers and the storming of the Bastille
How Jesus became a white European
John Adams dialogues with a dead Ben Franklin
