July’s almost out the door, and apparently that means the return of book-burnin’ season. Check out that story and a few others you might have missed:
Is history destiny? Vouchers described this week as tools of segregation by foes, or the best ticket out of segregation by fans.
- Historian Jon Zimmerman comes right out with it: Why does it matter if vouchers were originally about segregation?
The latest speaker to be banned at Berkeley? Anti-creationist Richard Dawkins. The students didn’t like Dawkins’ statements about Islam.
Trump’s outreach to HBCUs can’t find any takers.
Evangelicals and politics: historian Chris Gehrz wonders about the relationship.
Yikes: Watch Elizabeth Johnston, aka “The Activist Mommy,” burn her Teen Vogue. Why? The magazine included information about anal sex.