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Woman with a flower.

The Summer of Love Ended 50 Years Ago. It Reshaped American Conservatism.

The Jesus People, born on Haight Ashbury, had a profound influence on the Religious Right.

by Neil J. Young via Vox on August 31, 2017

Watson Heston cartoon of two people at a crossroads--one direction is the "Free Thought Road" which leads to truth, and the other direction is "Orthodox Road" and the "Vale of Tears."

Atheists in the Pantheon

Leigh Eric Schmidt profiles the nineteenth century's notable "village atheists."

by Joseph Blankholm via Public Books on August 14, 2017

Flag in front of a church.

What Politicians Mean When They Say The United States Was Founded As A Christian Nation

Today's Christian nationalists and liberal secularists both oversimplify the history of the nation's founding.

by Sam Haselby via Washington Post on July 4, 2017

No 'King of Kings'

Edits that colonists made to prayer books during the American Revolution embodied the shift to independence.

by Sara Georgini via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on July 3, 2017

The True Story of the Fight for Religious Equality in the US

The U.S. Constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, but the fight for religious equality was only just beginning.

by Richard D. Brown via Aeon on June 28, 2017

The Artifacts of White Supremacy

Why fiery crosses, white robes, and the American flag were seized upon by the 1920s Klan in its campaign for white nationalism.

by Kelly J. Baker via Religion and Culture Forum on June 14, 2017

Benjamin Franklin

A “Thorough Deist?” The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin

Historian Thomas S. Kidd examines the tension between Benjamin Franklin's deism and his frequent religious rhetoric.

by Thomas S. Kidd via Age of Revolutions on June 5, 2017

The Most Successful First 100 Days Of An Administration Didn't Belong To Who You Think

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

by Kevin M. Kruse via Esquire on April 27, 2017

The Mount Carmel Center in Waco, Texas engulfed in flames

How Religious Literacy Might Have Changed the Waco Tragedy

Religious scholars argue that the Waco raid was not justified and that with more understanding of theology, the loss of life could have been avoided.

by Peter Feuerherd, Jean E. Rosenfield, Mary Zeiss Stange, Ivan Strenski via JSTOR Daily on April 19, 2017

As God Is My Witness

A year-long series of photographs and stories that explain the struggle between the old South and the new.

by Johnathon Kelso via The Bitter Southerner on April 4, 2017

Billboard that reads "God Loves You" above an American flag and doves.

One Nation Under Gods

Despite what Steve King says, the U.S. was never a Christian nation.

by Richard White via Boston Review on March 22, 2017

Self-Righteous Devils: What Ozark Vigilantes of the 1880s Reveal About Modern America

The story of the Bald Knobbers is a terrifying parable about what happens when government fails and violence reigns.

by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on February 24, 2017

KKK march in Washington in 1925.

When Bigotry Paraded Through the Streets

A century ago, millions of Americans banded together to reform the KKK, the rest turned a blind eye.

by Joshua D. Rothman via The Atlantic on December 4, 2016

Freedom vs. Liberty: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Chose One Over the Other

Religious "freedom" and "liberty" have always had different connotations.

by Stephanie Russell-Kraft via Religion Dispatches on October 12, 2016

TIME's 'Is God Dead?' Cover Turns 50

How the April 8, 1966, cover of TIME set off a firestorm.

via TIME on April 8, 2016

Soul Survivor

The revival and hidden treasure of Aretha Franklin.

by David Remnick via The New Yorker on April 4, 2016

The Strange Career of Free Exercise

How efforts to bolster religious liberty set off a chain of unintended consequences.

by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on April 4, 2016

Born a Slave, Emma Ray Was The Saint of Seattle’s Slums

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

by Lorraine McConaghy via Crosscut on February 26, 2016

A painting of U.S. Navy Lt. Stephen Decatur battling Muslim sailors, Tripoli, August 1804.

America’s Forgotten Images of Islam

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

by Peter Manseau via The Wall Street Journal on February 27, 2015

Full text of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, etched in stone.

What Does It Mean To Make America "Christian?"

The "Christian Amendment" and the push for Christianity to be established as the national religion of the United States.

by Charles Louis Richter via (Ir)religion In America on February 26, 2015

Santa with sack of toys atop chimney

Naughty & Nice: A History of the Holiday Season

Tracing the evolution of Christmas from a drunken carnival to the peaceful, family-oriented, consumeristic ritual we celebrate today.

via BackStory on December 26, 2014

Visa as the Mark of the Beast, as imagined by a 1960s Christian tract.

Technology and Apocalypse in America

Some sects of Christian belief have long held that various forms of technology were signs of an approaching apocalypse.

by Daniel Salas via The Appendix on August 27, 2014

Group of men including clergy.

Unearthing The Surprising Religious History Of American Gay Rights Activism

Years before Stonewall, many clergy members were standing on the front lines for gay rights.

by Jaweed Kaleem via HuffPost on June 28, 2014

C. L. Franklin and his daughter Aretha.

The Man with the Million Dollar Voice

The mighty but divided soul of C.L. Franklin.

by Tony Scherman via The Believer on July 1, 2013

Gen. Lew Wallace, circa 1861.

The Incredible Life of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and Author of Ben-Hur

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

by John Swansburg via Slate on March 26, 2013

William Jennings Bryan, c. 1910s.

All You Need Is Love

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.

by Ronald Steel via New York Review of Books on June 22, 2006

Part of the Parthenon Frieze, Elgin Marbles, British Museum.

The Origins of the West

Georgios Varouxakis reexamines when and why people began to conceptualize "the West."

by Max Skjönsberg via Law & Liberty on August 25, 2025

Thomas Kinkade

The Painter of the Right

Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.

by Sarah Jones via Dissent on July 16, 2025

Jimmy Swaggart holds up a bible. The word "legacy" is superimposed over him.

‘The LORD Told Me It’s Flat None of Your Business’: Jimmy Swaggart’s Scandalous Legacy

Jimmy Swaggart utilized his charisma to overcome not one, but two sex scandals.

by Suzanna Krivulskaya via Religion Dispatches on July 2, 2025

A man walks down the street dressed as Uncle Sam and carries a large baby Donald Trump doll.

Cracked, Costly Fantasies

The legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.

by Dan O’Sullivan via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 28, 2025

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