Peter Manseau

Muscular Christianity — with scriptural interpretations that can favor “stand your ground” over “turn the other cheek” — has a long tradition in the U.S.

Smithsonian curator of religion Peter Manseau weighs in on a history that must be told.

Islam in America dates to the founding fathers, says Smithsonian’s religion curator Peter Manseau.

When America’s first aerial cameraman met an infamous spirit photographer, the chemistry was explosive.

Hamilton is less a new vision of the past than a translation of the sacred stories of American civil religion into the vernacular.

Popular early U.S. tales depicted Muslims as menacing figures in faraway lands or cardboard moral paragons.