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American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation

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Political cartoon depicting the menace of monopolies and trusts (1899)

Degeneration Nation

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.

by Adam Morris via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 14, 2020

Mankind, Unite!

How Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult.

by Adam Morris via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 13, 2019

Religious Cult, Force for Civil Rights, or Both?

Examining the life of Father Divine, the black preacher who called for the destruction of racial separation and claimed to be God.

by Adam Morris via Literary Hub on March 28, 2019

Jemima Wilkison.

The Person Formerly Known as Jemima Wilkinson

Awakening from illness, the newly risen patient announced that Jemima had died and that her body had been requisitioned by God for the salvation of humankind.

by Adam Morris via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 26, 2019

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