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How Memphis Gave Gospel the Holy Ghost
On the evening of October 7, 1952, gospel promoters booked the Spirit of Memphis for a concert in Memphis’s Mason Temple.
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Robert F. Darden
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Oxford American
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December 10, 2024
The Abolitionist Titan You’ve Never Heard Of
John Rankin, minister and fierce abolitionist, is a man worth remembering in our moment.
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Isaac Willour
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Law & Liberty
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November 8, 2024
Democrats Can’t Rely on the Black Church Anymore
The path to winning the Black vote no longer runs through the church door.
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Daniel K. Williams
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The Atlantic
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September 18, 2024
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Why Early American Conservatives Loved Russia
A conspiracy theory among New England Federalists led some to contemplate separating from the U.S. during the War of 1812.
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Nicholas Dipucchio
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Made By History
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March 27, 2024
Michael Knott, Who Changed The Course of Christian Rock, Dies at 61
An entire industry wouldn't exist without him, yet few know his name. In his songs, Knott challenged the faithful to examine their faults and hypocrisies.
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Lars Gotrich
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NPR
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March 14, 2024
Lincoln’s Faith
The President's spiritual journey transformed him and the nation.
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Joshua Zeitz
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The Saturday Evening Post
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February 12, 2024
The Many Lives of Samuel Ringgold Ward
A new biography examines the life of the abolitionist, newspaper editor, activist, and globetrotter.
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Kellie Carter Jackson
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The Nation
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October 18, 2023
How Thomas Lanier Williams Became Tennessee
A collection of previously unpublished stories offers a portrait of the playwright as a young artist.
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Casey N. Cep
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The New Yorker
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July 3, 2023
The 'Nyasaland Bicycle' (c. 1900): A History of Technology and Empire
Tracing the histories and legacies of technology and empire through a wooden bicycle at Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum.
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Nathan Cardon
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Midlands Art Papers
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June 15, 2023
After a 1935 Tragedy, a Priest Vowed to Teach Kids About Menstruation
A teenage girl died by suicide after she started menstruating and not knowing what it was, in 1935. A bill in Florida wants to take us back to those times.
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Maham Javaid
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Washington Post
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March 25, 2023
The Fight for the Sabbath
The partnership between rabbis and labor that delivered the two-day weekend.
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Avi Garelick
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Jewish Currents
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February 21, 2023
Learning and Not Learning Abortion
The fact that most doctors like me don't know how to perform abortions is one of the greatest scandals of contemporary medicine in the US.
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Laura Kolbe
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n+1
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November 15, 2022
Baptists, Slavery, and the Road to Civil War
Baptists were never monolithic on the issue of slavery, but Southern Baptists were united in their opposition to Northern Baptists determining their beliefs.
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Obbie Tyler Todd
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The London Lyceum
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November 14, 2022
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Deal With the Devil
Fifty years ago, zealots preaching misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.
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Sarah Posner
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The Nation
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September 12, 2022
The Atlantic Writers Project: Harriet Beecher Stowe
A contemporary Atlantic writer reflects on one of the voices from the magazine's archives who helped shape the publication—and the nation.
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Elizabeth Bruenig
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The Atlantic
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July 11, 2022
A Family’s Journey From a School Prayer Dispute to the Supreme Court
The Weisman family objected to religious prayers at a 1986 school graduation. The case went to the Supreme Court, which is again ruling on prayer in schools.
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Linda K. Wertheimer
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Retropolis
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June 20, 2022
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A Formerly Enslaved Woman Helped Found a Key American University
Mary Lumpkin’s life helps us to better understand the post-Civil War push for education.
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Kristen Green
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Made By History
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May 10, 2022
What Makes Laws Unjust
King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.
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Randall Kennedy
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Boston Review
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April 11, 2022
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The Formerly Enslaved Man Whose Faith Inspired a Slave Revolt
Denmark Vesey expressed the Bible’s anti-slavery messages.
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Jeremy Schipper
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Made By History
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April 7, 2022
When Forgiveness Enables Tyranny: The Unbearable Lightness of Henry Ward Beecher
The most influential preacher in the country, Beecher aggressively agitated for the Union to extend complete forgiveness to Confederates.
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Kari J. Winter
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Commonplace
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February 1, 2022
No Bishops, No Kings: Religious Iconography and Popular Memory of the American Revolution
Popular religious iconography and art in the decades preceding the Revolution offer a fuller narrative arc of the development of revolutionary ideas within American society.
by
J. L. Tomlin
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Age of Revolutions
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December 6, 2021
When Did Jesus Become a Capitalist?
How did a radical social activist, killed for his politics, become the figurehead of capitalist and imperial power?
by
Steve Teare
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The Nib
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July 19, 2021
The Hellfire Preacher Who Promoted Inoculation
Three hundred years ago, Cotton Mather starred in a debate about treating smallpox that tore Boston apart.
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Livia Gershon
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JSTOR Daily
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March 7, 2021
The Late ’30s Deplatforming of Father Coughlin
Then as now, not many people were willing to raise their own voices to defend the speech of a vulgarian spewing hate over a mass medium.
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Thomas Doherty
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Slate
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January 21, 2021
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Warnock’s Win Was 150 Years In the Making — But History Tells Us It Is Fragile
The selection of African American Sen. Hiram Revels in 1870 offered great hope — but it was soon dashed.
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William Sturkey
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Made By History
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January 18, 2021
Why Did Everyone in the 19th Century Think They Could Talk to the Dead?
Kevin Dann on the spiritualists of New York City and beyond.
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Kevin Dann
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Literary Hub
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January 5, 2021
The Many Explosions of Los Angeles in the 1960s
Set the Night on Fire isn't just a portrait of a city in upheaval. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world.
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Samuel Farber
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Jacobin
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June 29, 2020
The Unquiet Hymnbook in the Early United States
This post is a part of our “Faith in Revolution” series, which explores the ways that religious ideologies and communities shaped the revolutionary era.
by
Christopher N. Phillips
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Age of Revolutions
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March 2, 2020
A Personal Act of Reparation
The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.
by
Kirk Savage
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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December 15, 2019
Full Pardon and Amnesty
Considering the treatment of Confederate veterans in light of the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the South today.
by
Geoff Davidson
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The Bitter Southerner
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September 6, 2019
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