religious discrimination

A dark chapter in the history of religious persecution.

Alexander Hamilton always believed that the providential protection that kept the small Jewish world alive would embrace his own extraordinary nation.

The new program might strengthen personal connections to refugees, but history shows there are potential downsides, as well.

The concept of "heathenism" may seem outmoded, but it defines race and religion in America.

The “racial” distinctions between master and slave may be more familiar to Americans, but they were and are no more real than those between Gentile and Jew.

When the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith ran for president, he wasn’t seeking further glory but a policy change in religious liberty.

America is now ruled by a single elite class rather than by local patrician smart sets competing with each other for money and power.

Historian John Turner tells the story of Plymouth Colony with nuance and care.

It was less about their asceticism and more about rejecting the world they had fled.

Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis.

Religious bigotry is only less pressing today than racial bigotry because of progress Jefferson helped bring about.

In 1790, as the First Amendment was being ratified, George Washington made a promise to American Jews.

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

The Constitution of 2018 is not the Constitution written by the Framers in 1787, and no one should wish otherwise.

American evangelicals once saw the Soviet Union and other communist countries as the world’s greatest threat to their faith.

A Vietnamese politician and an American academic led Michigan State University into a nation-building experiment and pulled America deeper into war.

For decades, book publishers regularly rejected authors on the basis of their race and religion. Their voices deserve to be heard.

Black Muslims have been an influential force in the prisoners' rights movement and criminal justice reform.

41 men are still being held without charges, without a way to leave, without homes to return to.

If religious freedom trumps equality under the law, it provides a “cover” that actually encourages discrimination.