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Board Games Were Indoctrination Tools for Christ, Then Capitalism

The very weird tale of how American board games used to teach you how to get to heaven, and later, how to make bank.
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The Role of Sports Ministries in the NFL Protests

A number of black athletes are fueling their activism with Christian faith.

Washington National Cathedral to Remove Stained Glass Windows Honoring Confederates

The debate over confederate iconography arrives in the closest thing the U.S. has to an official church.
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The Summer of Love Ended 50 Years Ago. It Reshaped American Conservatism.

The Jesus People, born on Haight Ashbury, had a profound influence on the Religious Right.

Our Trouble with Sex: A Christian Story?

"Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century" by Geoffrey R. Stone.
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What Politicians Mean When They Say The United States Was Founded As A Christian Nation

Today's Christian nationalists and liberal secularists both oversimplify the history of the nation's founding.

A “Thorough Deist?” The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin

Historian Thomas S. Kidd examines the tension between Benjamin Franklin's deism and his frequent religious rhetoric
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Why Conservative Evangelicals Have Lined Up for Trump

It’s a match made in heaven.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, center, and the cast of "Hamilton" at the Richard Rodgers Theater.

Father Worship

Hamilton is less a new vision of the past than a translation of the sacred stories of American civil religion into the vernacular.
Men dumping a barrel of alcohol down the sewer during Prohibition.
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Dried Up

How nativism and racism shaped the national movement towards Prohibition.
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The Meaning of Life

What Milton Bradley started.
National Civil Rights Museum recreation of King's Birmingham jail cell.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter written from prison remains one of his most famous works.
The “Little Red Schoolhouse” in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Schoolhouse Crock

In every generation, charlatans come along with a plan to make education better by spending less money on schools.
William F. Buckley, Donald Trump.

The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism

Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.
Richard Dreyfuss plays shark expert Hooper in Steven Spielberg’s classic 1975 film, “Jaws.”

The Stories Hollywood Tells About America

How three movies set on the Fourth of July reproduce popular myth, but reveal even more through what they leave unsaid.
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Trails of Tears, Plural: What We Don’t Know About Indian Removal

The removal of Indigenous people was a national priority with broad consensus.
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Deep States

The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.
Mike Lawler, Republican candidate for New York's 17th Congressional District.
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The GOP Can Thank Suburban N.Y. For its Slim Control of The House

How a red wave in a solidly blue state helped tip the balance.
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When Christmas Started Creeping

Christmas starts earlier every year — or does it?
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Fetal Rites

What we can learn from fifty years of anti-abortion propaganda.
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Responses to “Is History History?”

Responding to a controversial recent critique of "presentism," two historians make the case that history and politics have always been deeply interwoven.
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Patriotism and Consumerism in the Civil War

For a burgeoning consumer society, store-bought flags and bonnets offered proof that commercialism could go hand in hand with heartfelt emotion.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony with backdrop of abortion protest posters

What Did the Suffragists Really Think About Abortion?

Contrary to contemporary claims, Susan B. Anthony and her peers rarely discussed abortion, which only emerged as a key political issue in the 1960s.
Flowers and signs laid out at a makeshift memorial for the March 19th Georgia shooting.
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Teaching Asian American History in its Complexity Can Help Fight Racism

Asian Americans have been both the victims and perpetrators of racial discrimination.
A political cartoon in which a king sitting on a litter carried by enslaved men rests his elbow on three skulls labeled Fugitive Slave Bill.

Transcendentalists Against Slavery

Why have historians overlooked the connections between abolitionism and the famous New England cultural movement?
Portrait of Dorothy Day in black and white in 1916

‘Don’t Call Me a Saint’

In her lifetime, Dorothy Day rejected canonization for herself. Now revived, this bad idea would only diminish the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
Abandoned school bus with broken windows.

White Flight In Noxubee County: Why School Integration Never Happened

After the U.S Supreme Court forced school integration in early 1970, white families fled to either racist Central Academy or new Mennonite schools.
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The Roe Baby

After decades of keeping her identity a secret, Jane Roe’s child has chosen to talk about her life.
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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.
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What the Election of Asian American GOP Women Means For the Party

While American conservatism remains largely White, it has slowly but surely become less so.

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