Person

Adam Morris

Bylines

Degeneration Nation

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.

by Adam Morris via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 14, 2020
Mankind, Unite!

How Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult.

by Adam Morris via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 13, 2019
Religious Cult, Force for Civil Rights, or Both?

Examining the life of Father Divine, the black preacher who called for the destruction of racial separation and claimed to be God.

by Adam Morris via Literary Hub on March 28, 2019
The Person Formerly Known as Jemima Wilkinson

Awakening from illness, the newly risen patient announced that Jemima had died and that her body had been requisitioned by God for the salvation of humankind.

by Adam Morris via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 26, 2019

American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation

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How Cults Made America

A new book argues that, politically, messianic movements were often light-years ahead of their time. But at what cost?

by Tom Bissell via The New Yorker on April 24, 2019

Portrait of Jemima Wilkinson/Public Universal Friend in male robes

A Genderless Prophet Drew Hundreds of Followers Long Before the Age of Nonbinary Pronouns

The story of Jemima Wilkinson, otherwise known as the Public Universal Friend.

by Samantha Schmidt via Washington Post on January 5, 2020

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