History Matters: On the 400th Anniversary of Plymouth We’re Still Clinging to Destructive National Myths
Within William Bradford’s massive work, Of Plymouth Plantation, composed between 1630 and 1651 while he…
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A Locked and Loaded Covenant: The Religious Roots of America’s Gun Culture
Garry Wills was being only slightly ironic when he wrote (in the wake of the…
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Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments
Author Jenna Weissman Joselit answers RD’s 10 Questions
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Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History
With all the memes wishing a good riddance to 2016, and John Oliver’s epic send-off…
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Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion
Early black newspapers helped to solidify black identity at a time when that identity was being attacked in the cruelest, most violent ways.
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Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now
The old refrain that white liberals are the bane of systemic change applies differently when…
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The “Good Guy With a Gun” Myth
On the windy bluffs of Weehawken, New Jersey, overlooking Manhattan, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr…
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A Victory for Conservatives in Revised AP History Curriculum
High school history teachers who prep America’s best and brightest in their AP classes had better…
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How Hell Has Shaped America
What inspired you to write Damned Nation? When I was an undergraduate, I was stunned…
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From Anne Hutchinson to the HHS contraception mandate.
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