This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

• Early Long Lake: Senator Orville Platt
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman
• The World According to Whigs
• Harold Holzer: Lincoln and the Jews
• Footnotes: Missing A Link?
• In the Spotlight: 1930s Theatrical Makeup
• The Doanes: Bishops Against Women’s Rights
• An Island Fort Under The St. Lawrence River
• The Atlantic: The Problem With History Classes
• The Underground Railroad As Metaphor

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