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Statute of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, with construction hook ready to remove it.

History Shows the Danger of Comparing Trump to Jesus

It’s important to remember why analogies to Jesus should stay out of the political realm. The results are always ugly.

by Laura Brodie via Made By History on March 29, 2024

Antonin Scalia speaking at a Federalist Society event.

How the Federalist Society Conquered the American Legal System

How the Federalist Society became the engine of the conservative legal movement—and where it might be headed next.

by Peter Shamshiri, Rhiannon Hamam, Michael Liroff, Amanda Hollis-Brusky via Balls And Strikes on February 13, 2024

Children in a kindergarten classroom at the Horace Mann School, Tulsa, Okla., 1917.

Yes, Schools Should Teach Morality. But Whose Morals?

Belief that schools must teach moral values is older than public schools themselves. But whose morals?

by Mallory Hutchings-Tryon via Made By History on January 9, 2024

Manifest Destiny painting by Gast.

'Pure White' Examines the White Supremacist Origins of Evangelical Purity Culture

The new podcast discusses how purity is woven into many of the myths that have fed White supremacy in the nation’s past and continue to do so today.

by Sara Moslener, Emma Cieslik via Religion Dispatches on December 18, 2023

Members of Moms for Liberty stand outside a school, one holding a sign reading "I don't co-parent with the government."

Moms for Liberty Is Riding High. It Should Beware What Comes Next.

Yelling about schools gets people riled up. The outcome can be unpredictable.

by Adam Laats via Slate on August 29, 2023

Jacob Duché delivers the first prayer in the Continental Congress, 1774.

The Traitor Chaplain Who Gave Government Prayer to America — A 4th of July Corrective

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

by Andrew L. Seidel via Religion Dispatches on July 3, 2023

Morlok quadruplets with a teacher next to a chalkboard.

Sleepwalking to Madness in Mid-Century America

On Audrey Clare Farley’s “Girls and Their Monsters.”

by Ellen Wayland-Smith via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 13, 2023

Zoomed in picture of Pat Robertson's face.

Pat Robertson’s Genocidal God Has Called Him Home

The political preacher who made the religion look bad.

by Jeet Heer via The Nation on June 9, 2023

Dorothy and the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz."

The Feminist of Oz

Learn more about the story of Matilda Gage, whose writings inspired the witches in "The Wizard of Oz."

by Anna K. Danziger Halperin via New-York Historical Society on March 1, 2023

A GOP Elephant locked up in a padded cell.

It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy

The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.

by David Corn via Mother Jones on September 9, 2022

Cartoon of History of American Slavery book chasing a child.

They Want Your Child!

How right-wing school panics seek to repeal modernity and progress.

by Rick Perlstein via The Forum on July 22, 2022

Muhammad Ali

The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics

It’s never just about religion, says the author of a book about celebrities discovering new religious identities.

by Rebecca L. Davis, Eric C. Miller via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 19, 2021

The South’s Resistance to Vaccination Is Not As Incomprehensible As It Seems

The psychological forces driving “red COVID” have deep historical roots.

by Angie Maxwell, Rebecca Onion via Slate on October 1, 2021

A woman on her knees wearing a cowboy hat with an anti-vaccination protest as the background

The Baffling Legal Standard Fueling Religious Objections to Vaccine Mandates

As anti-vax plaintiffs seek faith-based exemptions, the judicial system will renew its struggle to determine what beliefs are truly “sincerely held.”

by Charles McCrary via The New Republic on September 27, 2021

Anti-evolution books for sale in Dayton, Tenn.

Why the Culture Wars in Schools Are Worse Than Ever Before

The history of education battles — from fights over evolution to critical race theory — shows why the country’s divisions are growing sharper.

by Jonathan Zimmerman via Politico Magazine on September 19, 2021

Illustration of Jesus Christ showing anger at money changers in the temple

When Did Jesus Become a Capitalist?

How did a radical social activist, killed for his politics, become the figurehead of capitalist and imperial power?

by Steve Teare via The Nib on July 19, 2021

Collage of sexual freethinkers with a book, a gavel, and a bra.

The Radical Women Who Paved the Way for Free Speech and Free Love

Anthony Comstock’s crusade against vice constrained the lives of ordinary Americans. His antagonists opened up history for feminists and other activists.

by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on July 15, 2021

Worshipers at a Pentecostal church, Chicago, 1941

A Praise House of Many Mansions

In a book and documentary series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a wide-ranging tour of Black religion in America.

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar via New York Review of Books on April 29, 2021

Flags flying at the Capitol Siege, including one that says "Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president."

The Capitol Riot Revealed the Darkest Nightmares of White Evangelical America

How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection.

by Matthew Avery Sutton via The New Republic on January 14, 2021

The Dark History of School Choice

How an argument for segregated schools became a rallying cry for privatizing public education.

by Diane Ravitch via New York Review of Books on January 4, 2021

A statue of Christopher Columbus.

Middle Schoolers Take on Columbus

A lesson on contextualizing history.

by Alex Pinelli via Perspectives on History on October 8, 2020

Donald Trump giving a speech under a mural of the Founders.

White Evangelicals and the New American Exceptionalism of Donald Trump

The president's "1776 Commission" marks a turning point in his rhetoric.

by Abram C. Van Engen via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on September 29, 2020

Two people clinking their bottles of beer together.

Let Us Drink in Public

Open container laws criminalize working-class people and make public life less fun. We need to legalize public drinking.

by Miles Kampf-Lassin via Jacobin on August 4, 2020

The Mainstreaming of Christian Zionism Could Warp Foreign Policy

How the history of dispensationalism shapes U.S. foreign policy today.

by Jeffrey Rosario via Made By History on June 30, 2020

The Past and Future of Latinx Politics

Two new books look at the history of Latinx Democrats and Republicans and the role each will play in the future.

by Ed Morales via The Nation on June 30, 2020

Portrait photograph of Daniel Bell sitting on a chair

The Homeless Radical

Daniel Bell was the prophet of a failed centrism. By the end of his life, he was revisiting the leftism of his youth.

by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Jacob Hamburger via Jewish Currents on December 23, 2019

Trump with hands folded and eyes closed, as if in prayer.

Explaining the Bond Between Trump and White Evangelicals

It's all about an agenda — and it's nothing new.

by Matthew Avery Sutton via Made By History on November 21, 2019

The Christian History of Korean-American Adoption

How World Vision and Compassion International sparked an Oregon family to raise eight mixed-race children.

by Soojin Chung via Christianity Today on October 9, 2019

What We Get Wrong About the Southern Strategy

It took much longer — and went much further — than we think.

by Angie Maxwell via Made By History on July 26, 2019

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, disguised, crushed, mocked, diminished, punished, or excoriated.

by Caroline Fraser via Literary Hub on May 16, 2019

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