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Jeff Sessions.

The Fight to Define Romans 13

Jeff Sessions used it to justify his policy of family separation, but he’s not the first to invoke the biblical passage.
by Lincoln Mullen via The Atlantic on June 15, 2018
Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux.

New Documents Reveal How the FBI Deployed a Televangelist to Discredit Martin Luther King

Elder Michaux, a popular black evangelist, aided the bureau's campaign to destroy King's reputation.
by Lerone A. Martin via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on April 3, 2018

The Revolutionary Roots of America’s Religious Nationalism

America's sense of religious nationalism was forged in the same fires that ignited the profoundly secular French Revolution.
by Benjamin E. Park via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on March 20, 2018

The Most Dangerous Gay Man in America Fought Violence With Violence

Four decades ago, Raymond Broshears armed his disciples to keep LGBT people safe from violent homophobes.
by Eric Markowitz via Newsweek on January 25, 2018
A 1902 football game mid-play, with men from both sides rushing at each other

God and the Gridiron Game

America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.
by Paul Putz, Hunter Hampton via Christianity Today on September 6, 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
Black Democrats raise their hands at the Democratic Convention.

23 Maps That Explain How Democrats Went From the Party of Racism to the Party of Obama

The longest-running party in America has seen significant shifts in its ideological and geographic makeup.
by Andrew Prokop via Vox on December 8, 2014
Brigham Young

The Reds Under Romney’s Bed

The most ambitious social experiment in American history that until 1877, explicitly rejected the core values of Victorian capitalism.
by Mike Davis via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 25, 2012

Mississippi: A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken

Mississippi may be the nation’s most religious state, but it is also far more complex and dynamic than many commentators admit.
by Alison de Lima Greene via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 19, 2012
Ronald Reagan.

Conservatism: A State of the Field

Does recognizing the importance of conservatism in the twentieth century make us see the arc of American history in a new way?
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Journal of American History on December 1, 2011
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
Doug Wilson

Doug Wilson’s Religious Empire Expanding in the Northwest

While hosting a conference featuring his defense of "Southern Slavery," Douglas Wilson exposes the radicalism of his growing "Christian" empire.
via Southern Poverty Law Center on April 20, 2004

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