Belief

What Betty and Barney Hill's alien abduction story reveals about America.

Betty and Barney Hill lost three hours on a New Hampshire highway in 1961. They spent years trying to understand it.

What should children learn in school? It's a question that's stirred debate for decades, and in 1974 it led to violent protests in West Virginia.

To fully understand the deep roots of today’s white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493.

The Bonaventure Hotel was a battleground in the war between transnational real estate capital and the city’s multiracial working class.

On the 50th anniversary of "The Jewish Catalog."

On the complex relationship between Black Americans and the Black church.

In yoga’s early days in the United States, skeptics warned it would lead people (e.g., women) of good faith and standing into paganism and ill repute.

An iconic moment deeply shaped by Quaker beliefs on gender and equality.

When drafting the Constitution, our founders had no need of prayer.

Moral panics repeat, again and again.

In “The 272,” Rachel L. Swarns sets out how the country’s first Catholic university profited from the sale of enslaved people.

The Protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness.

The political preacher who made the religion look bad.

Farewell to the senator's son who pioneered a TV genre, helped create the Christian right, ran for president, and earned the grudging respect of Abbie Hoffman.

How freedmen navigated an unofficially segregated Methodist Episcopal Church.

Through the tragedies and uncertainties of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln may have found a deepened connection to his religious faith.

Dwight L. Moody and the 1884 Haymarket Affair offer a look at what happens when Christians side with the wealthy instead of working class.

Remembering Mother Cabrini's humanitarian work for Italian immigrants.

Union soldiers improvised a Passover celebration near what's now Fayetteville, W.Va. They're being honored with a sign at the approximate site.

A conversation with historian David Hollinger about the rise of evangelicalism, the decline of mainline Protestantism, and the nature of America's secularism.

How Cesar Chavez married faith and ideology in his landmark farmworkers' march.

Many Americans who advocate it have little interest in religion and an aversion to American culture as it currently exists. What really defines the movement?

How the utopian notion of the U.S. as a meritocracy became so ingrained in the American psyche.

The partnership between rabbis and labor that delivered the two-day weekend.

Jonathan Edwards’s sermon reflects the complicated religious culture of eighteenth-century America, influenced not just by Calvinism, but Newtonian physics as well.

How dreams of other worlds, above and below our own, reflect the unfulfilled promises of Emancipation.

The story of Swami Vivekananda and his time in America.

The contemporary rise of Christian nationalism in the US is a reactionary response to the country’s liberalization over the past half-century.

History and controversy in the architecture of the Latter-day Saints.