religious revival

A digital archive of first-person accounts from the turn of the 19th century chronicling an unusual display of religious ecstasy.

The long historical roots and continuing relevance of the disgraced preacher's story.

The peculiarities of how American Christianity took shape help explain believers’ vulnerability to conspiratorial thinking and misinformation.

Elements of the Puritans’ unique worldview were handed down for generations and were carried westward by their descendants, the people we call Yankees.

A new book argues that, politically, messianic movements were often light-years ahead of their time. But at what cost?

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.

Fiery, energetic and preached by charismatic frontmen, Pentecostal Christianity had a big influence on rock and roll in its formative years.

He became known as an apolitical preacher. But Graham started out as an ardent conservative.

Racial tensions are rising, the earth is warming, and evangelicals are doing little to help. That may be Graham’s most significant legacy.

Recognizing that Americans are not the future of his religion, the late preacher embraced a global world.

Divisions in society and religion that still exist today resulted from the "Great Awakenings" of the 18th Century.

The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.

Dwight Eisenhower did more in his first hundred days than change laws—he changed a culture.

Emma Ray was a leader in battles against poverty, and for temperance.

American Indians and the tumult in their cultures precipitated by the arrival of alcohol.

Reflections on the life of Little Richard, the star who mistook a satellite for a ball of fire.

Apocalyptic thinking in early Christian fundamentalism.

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

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

Two preachers who shaped American Christianity diverged sharply on whether to protest or exploit slavery, with consequences that persist today.