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5 Questions with Ronit Stahl

A Q&A with the author of "Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America."

by Ronit Y. Stahl, Lauren Turek via Religion in American History on November 27, 2017

Ella Fitzgerald performs at Lorton Reformatory in 1959.

In the 1960s, Prison Chaplains Created a Star Studded Music Festival at Lorton Reformatory

Syncopation and swing reigned supreme at the annual Lorton Reformatory Jazz Festival in the 1960s.

by Dominique Mickiewitz via Boundary Stones on March 1, 2024

Thomas Paine

Reframing the Story of Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy

The time when Harvard made an atheist their head chaplain.

by Leigh Eric Schmidt via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on November 2, 2021

Charles Sherrod consulting advisors on courtroom strategy

A Vital Civil Rights Activist You Never Heard of Has Died

Charles Sherrod wasn’t a big name, but his life has a lot to tell us about the civil rights movement.

by Ansley L. Quiros via Made By History on October 13, 2022

Pilgrims going to church armed with guns.

God and Guns

Patrick Blanchfield tracks the long-standing entanglement of guns and religion in the United States. Part 1 of 2.

by Patrick Blanchfield via The Revealer on September 25, 2015

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