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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
Engraving of Founding Fathers reading the Declaration of Independence while onlookers rally.

Does America Have a Founding Philosophy?

It depends on how you read the Declaration’s “self-evident” truths.
by James R. Stoner, Jr. via Modern Age on July 1, 2025
Collage of protesters holding up signs against war taxes.

Could Tax Protests Defund the American War Machine?

Tax resistance has long opposed war and empire in North America, and could be a way to resist U.S. funding of violence in Gaza today.
by Lauren Fadiman via Current Affairs on March 18, 2025
A drawing of a naked woman standing in front of a crowd of Anabaptists and Quakers.

The Naked Quakers

Today, the international feminist group FEMEN uses nudity as part of its protests. But appearing naked in public was also a tactic used by early dissenters.
by Katrina Gulliver, Jean-Pierre Cavaillé via JSTOR Daily on September 9, 2024
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Religious Freedom

Tracing the long and contested history of religious freedom in the U.S., from colonial times to recent skirmishes over school prayer, abortion rights, and religious displays.
1924 Democratic convention at Madison Square Garden.

Why the 1924 Democratic National Convention Was the Longest and Most Chaotic of Its Kind

A century ago, the party took a record 103 ballots and 16 days of intense, violent debate to choose a presidential nominee.
by Eli Wizevich via Smithsonian on June 24, 2024
John Muir.

What a Young John Muir Learned In the Wisconsin Wilderness

The Scottish-born naturalist’s early years in the United States.
by Amanda Bellows via Literary Hub on June 14, 2024
Florida Governer Ron DeSantis at a press conference

Ron DeSantis Just Invited the Wrath of the Satanic Temple

Florida’s new school chaplain law invites a constitutional crisis as DeSantis bars some religions, defying First Amendment protections on religious liberty.
by Adam Laats via The New Republic on April 25, 2024
Rose Mackenberg.

The Ghost-Busting 'Girl Detective' Who Awed Houdini

As an undercover investigator, Rose Mackenberg unmasked hundreds of America’s fake psychics.
by Nina Strochlic via Atlas Obscura on March 14, 2024
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As SCOTUS Examines School Prayer, Families Behind a Landmark Ruling Speak Out

The Supreme Court opened the door to challenges on school prayer, 60 years after a landmark ruling in Engel v. Vitale.
via Retro Report on October 26, 2023
W.E.B. DuBois

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

On the complex relationship between Black Americans and the Black church.
by Christopher Cameron via Literary Hub on July 27, 2023
Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc's self-immolation during the Vietnam War.

The Journalist Who Photographed the Burning Monk

The man behind an iconic Vietnam War image captured ‘the ugliest events of our time.'
by Ray E. Boomhower via Zócalo Public Square on June 8, 2023
Black preacher giving an antislavery sermon to an integrated audience.

Baptists, Slavery, and the Road to Civil War

Baptists were never monolithic on the issue of slavery, but Southern Baptists were united in their opposition to Northern Baptists determining their beliefs.
by Obbie Tyler Todd via The London Lyceum on November 14, 2022
US Airforce nurses treating patients.

The Better Roe: The Case of Struck v. Secretary of Defense

When Susan Struck fought being discharged for pregnancy from the US Air Force, it brought the right to choose into a different light.
by Kara Dixon Vuic via Perspectives on History on August 10, 2022
People pray outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2022.

Separation of Church and State Has Always Been Good for Religion

The US Supreme Court's most recent decisions undermine centuries of established secularism within American government.
by Ed Simon via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on June 30, 2022
Man holding bible outside Capitol with Trump supporters
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Christian Nationalism Is Surging. It Wasn’t Inevitable.

How the decline of liberal religion transformed American Christianity — and politics.
by Gene Zubovich via Made By History on May 6, 2022
American Catholic book cover

Americanism and the ‘Roman’ Catholic

Daniel James Sundahl reviews D. G. Hart’s American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War.
by Daniel James Sundahl via The Russell Kirk Center on February 27, 2022
"Bad Faith Race and the Rise of the Religious Right" book cover, featuring a photo of politicians speaking to a crowd.

That New Old-Time Religion

“They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.”
by L. Benjamin Rolsky via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 30, 2021
A protest from an anti-vaccination protest

The COVID Anti-Vax Movement Has History on Its Side

Today’s “medical freedom” warriors are drawing on a centuries-old American tradition.
by Rebecca Onion, Lewis Grossman via Slate on November 18, 2021
Building saying "In God We Trust"

How 'In God We Trust' Bills are Helping Advance a Christian Nationalist Agenda

'In God We Trust' became the national motto of the US on July 30, 1956. Since then, it has been used to forward a conservative Christian agenda.
by Kristina M. Lee via The Conversation on July 16, 2021
People pose in front of the Stonewall Inn on the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York, on June 28, 2019.

The Republican Plot to Ban LGBTQ History in Public Schools

In a growing number of states, the GOP is pushing “Don’t Say Gay” laws to prevent students from learning about the triumphs and struggles of LGBTQ Americans.
by Gabriel Arana via The New Republic on June 28, 2021
Julie and Hillary Goodridge talking to reporters

Why the Marriage-Equality Movement Succeeded

The author of “The Engagement" discusses the activists, politicians, and judicial figures who were at the forefront of the battle over same-sex marriage.
by Isaac Chotiner, Sasha Issenberg via The New Yorker on June 10, 2021
The Oquirrh Mountain Temple in Salt Lake City

The Most American Religion

Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis.
by McKay Coppins via The Atlantic on December 16, 2020
Painting of “Polling Day” in Pennsylvania in the Colonies, date unknown.

“They Chase Specters”

The irrational, the political, and fear of elections in colonial Pennsylvania.
by J. L. Tomlin via Age of Revolutions on December 3, 2020
Cover image of "Freedom an Unruly History"

What We Call Freedom Has Never Been About Being Free

The modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction by elites who wanted to curtail state power.
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Annelien de Dijn via The Nation on October 29, 2020

Making the Supreme Court Safe for Democracy

Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.
by Samuel Moyn, Ryan D. Doerfler via The New Republic on October 13, 2020

The Flawed Genius of the Constitution

The document counted my great-great-grandfather as 3/5 of a free person. But the Framers don’t own the version we live by today. We do.
by Danielle Allen via The Atlantic on September 17, 2020
Replica of the original Plimoth Plantation.

The Complicated Legacy of the Pilgrims is Finally Coming to Light After 400 Years

Descendants of the Pilgrims have highlighted their ancestors’ role in the country’s founding. But their sanitized version of events is only now starting to be told in full.
by Peter C. Mancall via The Conversation on September 4, 2020
A Native American community gathers for a powwow

How to Have a Powwow in a Pandemic

Native communities in North America have been particularly hard-hit by COVID-19. This isn't the first time.
by S. I. Rosenbaum, Arigon Starr via The Nib on July 29, 2020
An illustration of a pilgrim looking toward the sky with a group of others gathered around kneeling.

What Liberty Meant to the Pilgrims

Most adult men could aspire to participation in the religious and political government of the colony. But this communal liberty did not imply personal liberty.
by Nathanael Blake via National Review on June 18, 2020
Washington takes the oath of office surrounded by Founders.

The Faith of the American Founders

What were the religious beliefs of the American founding generation? What do they mean for us today?
by Steven Green, Thomas S. Kidd, Mark David Hall, Brooke Allen via Cato Unbound on June 16, 2020
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