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Puritanism as a State of Mind
Whatever the “City on a Hill” is, the phrase was not discovered by Kennedy or Reagan.
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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.
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Audrey Clare Farley
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The New Republic
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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.
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Peter C. Mancall
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The Conversation
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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.
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Richard Kreitner
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Zócalo Public Square
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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
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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
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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
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Process: A Blog for American History
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March 12, 2019
Reconsidering the Jewish American Princess
How the JAP became America’s most complex Jewish stereotype.
by
Jamie Lauren Keiles
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Vox
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Public Books
on
November 14, 2017
Phoenician or Arab, Lebanese or Syrian?
Who were the early immigrants to America?
by
Akram Khater
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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.
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Stacy Fahrenthold
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Tropics of Meta
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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.
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Annette Gordon-Reed
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The New Yorker
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June 6, 2011
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