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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.
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Johann N. Neem
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
July 15, 2022
The Sects That Rejected 19th-Century Sex
Why three religious groups traded monogamy for celibacy, polygamy, and complex marriage.
by
Stewart Davenport
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Zócalo Public Square
on
February 14, 2022
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
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Teresa L. Reed
via
JSTOR Daily
on
February 4, 2022
An Ugly Preeminence
On the devout abolitionists who excoriated American exceptionalism.
by
Ian Tyrrell
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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January 26, 2022
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
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The New Yorker
on
October 11, 2021
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
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Politico Magazine
on
September 14, 2021
Making Sense of Heaven’s Gate
An excerpt from the new anthology, “American Cult.”
by
Robyn Chapman
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The Nib
on
August 2, 2021
Puritanism as a State of Mind
Whatever the “City on a Hill” is, the phrase was not discovered by Kennedy or Reagan.
by
Glen A. Moots
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Law & Liberty
on
April 30, 2021
Inside the World's Largest Jewish Cookbook Collection
A librarian with a love for eBay built this trove of culinary history.
by
Anne Ewbank
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Atlas Obscura
on
March 24, 2021
The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community
Its embrace of an ignominious president is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with the movement’s embrace of white supremacy and illiberal politics.
by
Audrey Clare Farley
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The New Republic
on
March 16, 2021
Why the Puritans Cracked Down on Celebrating Christmas
It was less about their asceticism and more about rejecting the world they had fled.
by
Peter C. Mancall
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The Conversation
on
December 17, 2020
Thank the Pilgrims for America's Tradition of Separatism, Division, and Infighting
They were not the nation's first settlers, but they were the most fractious.
by
Richard Kreitner
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Zócalo Public Square
on
November 25, 2020
How Jesus Became White — and Why It’s Time to Cancel That
Nearly a century later, both ‘Head of Christ’ and criticism of its role in enshrining Jesus as white endure.
by
Emily McFarlan Miller
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Religion News Service
on
June 25, 2020
James Madison Understood Religious Freedom Better than Jefferson Did
One emphasized the freedom to think; the other, in effect, the freedom to pray.
by
Steven Waldman
via
National Review
on
May 20, 2019
It Was History All Along, Mom
Why did I never recognize all the important and valuable stories my mother told me as "history"?
by
Erin Bartram
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Contingent
on
May 5, 2019
'I Love America': Fundamentalist Responses to World War II
The fundamentalist movement took the war as an opportunity to rebrand.
by
Anderson Rouse
via
Process: A Blog for American History
on
March 12, 2019
Reconsidering the Jewish American Princess
How the JAP became America’s most complex Jewish stereotype.
by
Jamie Lauren Keiles
via
Vox
on
December 5, 2018
The Truth About the Killing Fields
A trio of books depict the true narrative of the massacres within Indonesia in 1965.
by
Margaret Scott
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 28, 2018
How Christianity Created Rock ’n’ Roll
Rock music owes much of its claim to coolness to the Christian faith.
by
David Hajdu
via
Public Books
on
June 21, 2018
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Today is a National Day of Prayer. Should That be Legal?
How solid is the wall between church and state?
by
David B. Gowler
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Made By History
on
May 3, 2018
Religion and the Republic
Looking to the French Revolution and the writings of Tocqueville for insight into Trump’s America.
by
Philip Gorski
via
Public Books
on
November 14, 2017
Phoenician or Arab, Lebanese or Syrian?
Who were the early immigrants to America?
by
Akram Khater
via
NC State University
on
September 20, 2017
What We Can Learn from America’s Other Muslim Ban (Back in 1918)
Stacy Fahrenthold compares Donald Trump's Muslim ban to that of Woodrow Wilson back in 1918.
by
Stacy Fahrenthold
via
Tropics of Meta
on
February 8, 2017
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the Art of Persuasion
Stowe’s novel shifted public opinion about slavery so dramatically that it has often been credited with fuelling the war that destroyed the institution.
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
via
The New Yorker
on
June 6, 2011
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