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Our Trouble with Sex: A Christian Story?

"Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century" by Geoffrey R. Stone.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on August 17, 2017

Mike and Karen Pence.

History Suggests We Should Be Paying More Attention to Karen Pence

Donald Trump's children aren't the only family members with political power in the Trump administration.

by Melissa J. Gismondi via Nursing Clio on July 11, 2017

Prayers for Richard

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

by David Ramsey via Oxford American on December 11, 2015

Billy Graham and Richard Nixon

The King’s Chapel and the King’s Court

Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, and their White House church services.

by Kevin M. Kruse via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on July 7, 2015

Bob Jones University sign.

The Real Origins of the Religious Right

They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

by Randall Balmer via Politico Magazine on May 27, 2014

Cover of Matthew Avery Sutton's "American Apocalypse" featuring a drawing of people being raptured.

Back to the Fundamentals

Apocalyptic thinking in early Christian fundamentalism.

via BackStory on December 14, 2012

Flag in front of a church.

Iowa: A Pastor's Son Notes When Politics Came to the Pulpit

A pastor's son reflects on his evangelical father's beliefs regarding politics in the pulpit.

by Randall Balmer via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 27, 2012

Lady Soul Singing it Like It Is

In 1968, Time Magazine searched for the elusive definition of "soul."

via TIME on June 28, 1968

Photo of Claudine gay testifying to Congress.

What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

On Richard Hofstadter and the current assault on academia.

by Peter Balakian via Literary Hub on July 9, 2025

Protestors at the Global Climate Strike in London, March 2019.

Why Everyone Hates White Liberals

1988 was a pivotal year in how “white liberals” are perceived by their fellow Americans.

by Kevin M. Schultz via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on June 25, 2025

The all seeing eye reveals that the American flag is melting.

America’s Broken Commonwealth

The nation’s founding myth was based on faith and solidarity – but it also contained the roots of today’s democratic crisis.

by Rowan Williams via New Statesman on May 22, 2025

Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn.

Blacklists and Civil Liberties

On the Second Red Scare and the lessons that it can provide for us today.

by Clay Risen, Miguel Petrosky via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on May 13, 2025

Ronald Reagan and his mother.

Ronald Reagan’s Guiding Light

Having inherited his mother’s beliefs, Reagan was ever faithful to the Disciples of Christ, whose tenets were often at odds with those of the GOP.

by Richard D. Mahoney via JSTOR Daily on April 30, 2025

The Meaning of Kony 2012

The Kony 2012 campaign pioneered a new form of online activism — one that served empire more than the people it claimed to help.

by Benjamin Fogel via Jacobin on March 9, 2025

The Political Force Behind Zionism

A new book traces the rise of the Israel lobby and the challenges it has faced as global criticism of Israel has intensified.

by Ted Steinberg via Jacobin on January 27, 2025

Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown."

Timothée Chalamet Does Dylan

Despite Chalamet’s best efforts, "A Complete Unknown" is a cookie-cutter Bob Dylan biopic for a legendary artist who deserves something more interesting.

by Eileen Jones via Jacobin on January 1, 2025

The Battle for the Mind (Tim LaHaye, 1980); from Creationism to Christian Nationalism

The Battle for the Mind (Tim LaHaye, 1980); from Creationism to Christian Nationalism

Tim LaHaye bridged Reagan-era anti-Communism to today’s Christian Nationalism, opposing humanism, evolution, and secularism, emphasizing biblical morality.

by Paul Braterman via 3 Quarks Daily on December 29, 2024

A boy scout yawns as he holds a U.S. flag at an event in Maine in 1984.

The Christian Nationalism at the Heart of Jim Crow America

The Trump campaign is signaling that it intends to make the U.S. a "Christian nation." Here's what that idea looked like in history.

by William Horne via Made By History on October 17, 2024

Hail Mary

In the 1970s, some athletes began questioning the alliance between sports, conservative Christianity, and politics.

by Paul Putz via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on September 9, 2024

Headlights on the road and a forest fire on the horizon.

Meaning in Decline

The surprising influence of premillennial eschatology on American culture.

by Daniel G. Hummel via Comment on September 5, 2024

A drawing of two people speaking with a third person's head listening between them.

Diverging Majority

Demography has not managed to be destiny in the past half-century—but predictions of a millenarian shift have not lost their appeal.

by Rick Perlstein, Geraldo Cadava via The Baffler on September 3, 2024

John Andrew Jackson riding a galloping horse and tipping his hat.

How Do We Tell a Tale of People Who Sought to Disappear?

The life of John Andrew Jackson — and the vacillating richness and scarcity of the archive.

by Susanna Ashton via HNN on August 13, 2024

Portrait of a Black woman; artist unknown, American, circa 1830–1835.

In Search of the Real Hannah Crafts

"The Bondwoman’s Narrative" is the first novel by a Black woman to describe slavery from the inside. Recently, scholars have discovered her true identity.

by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on July 25, 2024

How Conservatives Changed the Whole Point of American Political Parties

The rise of the right remade the GOP—and fundamentally changed how parties operated in American politics.

by Daniel Schlozman, Sam Rosenfeld via Made By History on June 10, 2024

Richard Nixon and Billy Graham at the podium at the University of Tennessee.

The Leaders of Tomorrow

What happened in 1970 after Richard Nixon was told, “I doubt that there would be any problem of student demonstrations in Tennessee.”

by Katherine J. Ballantyne via HNN on May 8, 2024

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glad to the Brink of Fear

A new biography reveals how Ralph Waldo Emerson gave Americans a vocabulary to understand themselves in an era even more tempestuous than our own.

by Nicole Penn via American Purpose on March 13, 2024

Statue of Sojourner Truth.

The Remarkable Untold Story of Sojourner Truth

Feminist. Preacher. Abolitionist. Civil rights pioneer. Now the full story of the American icon's life and faith is finally coming to light.

by Cynthia R. Greenlee via Smithsonian on February 12, 2024

Martin Luther King preaching at Ebeneezer Church.

Lessons from MLK's Fight to Mobilize the Black Church

The history of Black churches’ struggles offers both warnings and hope for the U.S. today.

by Dylan C. Penningroth via TIME on January 13, 2024

An open textbook.

The Right-Wing Textbooks Shaping What Americans Know

Conservative curricula are being pushed into tax-funded history classrooms.

by Adam Laats via Made By History on October 11, 2023

Portraits of Isabella Graham and Catherine Ferguson

Where Are the Women? Past Choices That Shaped the Historical Record

When women are missing from the history we tell, sometimes it’s because of how their stories were preserved and told in the past.

by Amanda Bowie Moniz via Perspectives on History on September 1, 2023

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