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Talking God in the United States

What are Americans really talking about when they talk about religious freedom?
by Rachel Gordan via Los Angeles Review of Books 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

The Freedom to Choose Your Religion Comes With a Price

In a new book, a historian explores the American fascination with conversion, and its costs. 
by Lincoln Mullen, Emma Green via The Atlantic on August 12, 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
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
Brown University women's glee club, including Clara Gomberg, the first Jewish woman to graduate Brown.

“A Jewess Would Not Be Acceptable”

When it came to antisemitism, women’s colleges were no better than the Ivy League.
by Amy Sohn via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on May 8, 2025
A drawing of cannons being fired at Fort Sumter.

What Can We Learn From the Jewish Debate Over Slavery?

This Passover, American Jews should embrace the fight for “emancipation of all kinds.”
by Richard Kreitner via Slate on April 10, 2025
Nicholas Said, an African American Muslim in his Union Army uniform.

Fighting for Freedom: The Little-Known Story of Muslims and the Civil War

The stories of two Muslim immigrants who fought for the Union show that the American Civil War was an international fight.
via PBS on November 21, 2024

Ralph Waldo Emerson Meets His Spirit Animal

Some Americans who have lost faith in traditional institutions are finding spirituality in this Denver church—and in themselves.
by Molly Worthen via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on September 19, 2024
Black churchgoers attending a sermon.

Democrats Can’t Rely on the Black Church Anymore

The path to winning the Black vote no longer runs through the church door.
by Daniel K. Williams via The Atlantic on September 18, 2024
Photo collage showing an anti-abortion rally, a same-sex marriage, and the Supreme Court, among other things.

How U.S. Public Opinion Has Changed in 20 Years of Our Surveys

We took a closer look at how Americans’ views and experiences have evolved on a variety of topics over the last 20 years.
by Jenn Hatfield via Pew Research Center on September 13, 2024
Still from a "Between the Temples," showing a man and woman lying opposite each other.

How Resilient Are Jewish American Traditions?

"Between the Temples" tackles the anxieties around cultural assimilation—and finds continuity among very different generations.
by Mark Asch via The Atlantic on August 30, 2024
Don Baker, holding sign that says "March On Washington October 14, 1979" with Texas silhouette.

The Dallas Teacher, Navy Vet, and Devout Christian Who Fought to Overturn Texas’s Sodomy Law

Unlikely activist Don Baker scored a landmark win for gay rights in Texas 42 years ago this week.
by Bruce Selcraig via Texas Monthly on August 14, 2024
Gratz Cohen and the manuscript of one of his poems.

A Savannah Poet

The Civil War cut short many lives, and a new a book that blends the genres of history and memoir sets out the resurrect the memory of one of those lives.
by Jason K. Friedman via University Of South Carolina Press on July 15, 2024

A Modest Proposal

More importantly, our misappropriation of “puritan” has allowed scholars to ignore and the public to misunderstand religion.
by Carla Gardina Pestana via Commonplace on May 21, 2024
Larry David.

The End of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Marks the End of an Era

Larry David is the last of his kind—and in several ways.
by Daniel Bessner via The Nation on April 8, 2024
Palestinian Arab women and children in Israel, 1949

American Jews Have Fought for Palestinian Rights Since Israel Was Born

My research shows that this tradition runs deep.
by Geoffrey Levin via Slate on January 28, 2024
A collage of Meir Kahane, a pistol, and the outline of Israel and Palestine on a yellow background.

The American Origins of Israel’s Armament Campaign

How Kahanism infiltrated the political mainstream.
by Rafi Reznik via The Dial on December 5, 2023
James Baldwin

Reading Baldwin After Kanye

A conversation about James Baldwin’s 1967 essay, “Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They are Anti-White.”
by Marc Lamont Hill, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Daniel May, Ben Ratskoff, nyle fort via Jewish Currents on September 29, 2023
Sketch of a newspaper office with men holding stacks of papers.

The Feud Between Immigrant Newspapers in Arkansas

A feud between two nineteenth-century German-language newspapers showed that immigrant communities embraced a diversity of interests and beliefs.
by Julia Métraux, Kathleen Condray via JSTOR Daily on January 24, 2023
Illustration of a Christian church cracking into two pieces.

A Religious Movement Divided Against Itself (Probably) Cannot Stand

Liberal Protestants built a global elite in the 20th century. Its fracturing holds a caution for evangelicals today.
by Daniel G. Hummel via Christianity Today on September 6, 2022
Drawing of enslaved persons harvesting sugarcane.

Wesley, Whitefield, and a Gospel That Disrupts

Two preachers who shaped American Christianity diverged sharply on whether to protest or exploit slavery, with consequences that persist today.
by Ian Olson via Plough Magazine on August 22, 2022
A celebration outside the Supreme Court on June 24, in Washington. (Steve Helber/AP)
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The Christian Right’s Version of History Paid Off on Abortion and Guns

How Christian conservatives' version of American history shaped the Supreme Court’s abortion and gun decisions.
by Lauren R. Kerby via Made By History on July 18, 2022
The cover of the book "This Earthly Frame," depicting clouds swirling around the US Capitol dome.

The Struggle to Make the United States Secular

How progressives came to think that any recognition of Christianity by a public institution violates others’ rights.
by Johann N. Neem via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 15, 2022
A lithograph of a Shaker congregation worshipping by performing a step dance.

The Sects That Rejected 19th-Century Sex

Why three religious groups traded monogamy for celibacy, polygamy, and complex marriage.
by Stewart Davenport via Zócalo Public Square on February 14, 2022
Man playing drum

Music and Spirit in the African Diaspora

The musical traditions found in contemporary Black U.S. and Caribbean Christian worship originated hundreds of years ago, continents away.
by Livia Gershon, Teresa L. Reed via JSTOR Daily on February 4, 2022
Pastoral landscape with classical architecture. Copy after Thomas Cole’s “Dream of Arcadia”, by Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1852.

An Ugly Preeminence

On the devout abolitionists who excoriated American exceptionalism.
by Ian Tyrrell via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 26, 2022
Illustration of Henry David Thoreau and Lidian Emerson looking into each other's eyes

Thoreau in Love

The writer had a deep bond with his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. But he also had a profound connection with Emerson’s wife.
by James Marcus via The New Yorker on October 11, 2021
Joe Biden

How Joe Biden Became Irish

The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.
by Ben Schreckinger via Politico Magazine on September 14, 2021
Two men holding picture of alien toward camera

Making Sense of Heaven’s Gate

An excerpt from the new anthology, “American Cult.”
by Robyn Chapman via The Nib on August 2, 2021
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