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Steve Gaines, prays with his wife at the 2018 Southern Baptist Convention meeting.

Southern Baptists, Gender Hierarchy, and the Road to Trump

Many Southern Baptists in the 1970s supported abortion rights and gender equality. What happened?

by R. Marie Griffith via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on July 10, 2018

Pauli Murray

The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

The author of a new biography explains how Murray changed the way that discrimination is understood today.

by Rosalind Rosenberg, Alyssa Collins via Black Perspectives on October 16, 2017

Puritans drinking in a colonial pub.

Perry Miller and the Puritans: An Introduction

Historians often treat Miller as a foil, but the Father of American Intellectual history retains untapped potential to inspire new modes of inquiry.

by Rivka Maizlish via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on May 8, 2013

Gen. Lew Wallace, circa 1861.

The Incredible Life of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and Author of Ben-Hur

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

by John Swansburg via Slate on March 26, 2013

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

Caricature of Christopher Columbus

The Lost Mariner

The self-confidence that kept Columbus going was his undoing.

by Elizabeth Kolbert via The New Yorker on October 6, 2002

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