Menu
Excerpts
Exhibits
Collections
Originals
Categories
Map
Search
Idea
Christianity
348
Filter by:
Date Published
Filter by published date
Published On or After:
Published On or Before:
Filter
Cancel
Viewing 301–330 of 348 results.
Go to first page
The Prophet Is Human
A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.
by
Mary F. Corey
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
April 11, 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
partner
Centrism and Moderation? No Thanks.
In times of moral crisis, everyone picks a side — even those proclaiming neutrality.
by
April Holm
via
Made By History
on
February 27, 2019
A Frederick Douglass Reading List
Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.
by
Jaime Fuller
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
February 21, 2019
Baby, Christmas Songs Have Always Been Controversial
Long before “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” holiday songs played a part in the War on Christmas.
by
Neil J. Young
via
The Atlantic
on
December 24, 2018
partner
The Overlooked Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
Remembering Howard Thurman and other forgotten activists.
by
David B. Gowler
via
Made By History
on
December 11, 2018
Chronicling the End Times on Tangier Island
Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem looks at life on a beautiful, vanishing Virginia island in Chesapeake Bay.
by
Mickie Meinhardt
via
The Bitter Southerner
on
December 4, 2018
Lewis Levin Wasn't Cool
The first Jewish member of Congress was a virulent nativist and anti-immigration troll who ended his life in an insane asylum.
by
Zachary M. Schrag
via
Tablet
on
October 22, 2018
A Family From High Plains
Sappony tobacco farmers across generations, and across state borders, when North Carolina and Virginia law diverged on tribal recognition, education, and segregation.
by
Nick Martin
via
Splinter
on
August 2, 2018
Agency, Order and Sport in the Age of Trump
Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, and the sporting middle ground.
by
Andrew McGregor
via
Public Seminar
on
July 18, 2018
My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader
White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.
by
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
via
The New Yorker
on
July 15, 2018
Working, Out
Homophobia at a CrossFit is a good time to remember that gym culture wouldn’t exist without queer people.
by
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
via
Slate
on
June 20, 2018
Inked Irishmen
Irish tattoos in 1860s New York.
by
Damian Shiels
via
Irish in the American Civil War
on
May 23, 2018
The Gods of Indian Country
How American expansion reshaped the religious worlds of both settlers and Native people.
by
Jennifer Graber
via
Not Even Past
on
May 1, 2018
partner
‘Whiteness’ Was Created to Keep Black People From Voting
When slaves got close to voting rights, slaveowners changed the rules of the game.
by
Katharine Gerbner
via
Made By History
on
April 27, 2018
How Do We Explain This National Tragedy? This Trump?
On 400 Years of Tribalism, Genocide, Expulsion, and Imprisonment.
by
T. J. Stiles
via
Literary Hub
on
January 31, 2018
Why Thomas Jefferson Owned a Qur’an
Islam in America dates to the founding fathers, says Smithsonian’s religion curator Peter Manseau.
by
Peter Manseau
via
Smithsonian
on
January 31, 2018
Why The 'War On Christmas' Just Isn't What It Used To Be
The battle between "Happy Holidays" and "Merry Christmas" goes way deeper than you think.
by
Sophie Kleeman
via
Bustle
on
December 21, 2017
Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s Joint Examination of American Identity
Their 1964 collaboration, "Nothing Personal," brought together aspects of American life and culture through photographs and text.
by
Hilton Als
via
The New Yorker
on
November 6, 2017
Historic Alexandria Church Decides to Remove Plaques Honoring Washington, Lee
The memorials to the two parishioners will be relocated to a new place of “respectful prominence.”
by
Lori Aratani
via
Washington Post
on
October 28, 2017
An Icy Conquest
“We are starved!” cried the sixty skeletal members of the English colony of Jamestown as provisions arrived in 1610.
by
Susan Dunn
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 26, 2017
partner
The Tireless Abolitionist Nobody Ever Heard of
He was a well-known figure in early America, but the name of Warner Mifflin has all but faded from the nation's memory.
by
Gary B. Nash
via
HNN
on
October 24, 2017
The Invention of Monogamy
For most of its history, monogamy was a rule only applied to married women.
by
Sarah Mirk
,
Isabella Rotman
via
The Nib
on
October 20, 2017
Phoenician or Arab, Lebanese or Syrian?
Who were the early immigrants to America?
by
Akram Khater
via
NC State University
on
September 20, 2017
God and the Gridiron Game
America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.
by
Paul Putz
,
Hunter Hampton
via
Christianity Today
on
September 6, 2017
Talking God in the United States
What are Americans really talking about when they talk about religious freedom?
by
Rachel Gordan
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 31, 2017
Orphan Utopia
The story of a spiritual visionary who in 1884, set out to create a colony of orphans in the New Mexico desert.
by
Reed McConnell
via
Cabinet
on
August 15, 2017
The Freedom to Choose Your Religion Comes With a Price
In a new book, a historian explores the American fascination with conversion, and its costs.
by
Lincoln Mullen
,
Emma Green
via
The Atlantic
on
August 12, 2017
Belief is Better
Robert Frost’s correspondence on teaching, writing and having fun.
by
David Bromwich
via
The Times Literary Supplement
on
July 7, 2017
The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
by
Adam Serwer
via
The Atlantic
on
June 4, 2017
View More
30 of
348
Filters
Filter Results:
Search for a term by which to filter:
Suggested Filters:
Idea
religion
evangelicalism
biblical interpretation
morality
Christian values
religious right
faith
Protestantism
religious freedom
secularism
Person
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
William Joseph Simmons
Geoffrey R. Stone
Jonathan Edwards
Donald Trump
Jerry Falwell Jr.
Emma Ray
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Royall Tyler