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A Denmark Vesey monument is seen in Hampton Park in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.

The Formerly Enslaved Man Whose Faith Inspired a Slave Revolt

Denmark Vesey expressed the Bible’s anti-slavery messages.

by Jeremy Schipper via Made By History on April 7, 2022

Elijah Muhammad, who was then the leader of the Nation of Islam, speaks to a crowd in Chicago in 1966.

What Do the Nation of Islam and Marjorie Taylor Greene Have in Common?

Stuart compares the shared values of Christian nationalists and the Nation of Islam in the 1960's and today.

by Joseph Stuart via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on March 8, 2022

American Catholic book cover

Americanism and the ‘Roman’ Catholic

Daniel James Sundahl reviews D. G. Hart’s American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War.

by Daniel James Sundahl via The Russell Kirk Center on February 27, 2022

Man playing drum

Music and Spirit in the African Diaspora

The musical traditions found in contemporary Black U.S. and Caribbean Christian worship originated hundreds of years ago, continents away.

by Livia Gershon, Teresa L. Reed via JSTOR Daily on February 4, 2022

Green labels read "100% Natural Product" and "Natural Bio Product"

Guilt-Free: Naturopathy and the Moralization of Food

How the rise of alternative, "natural," medicines led Americans to equate food with moral character.

by Zach Setton via Nursing Clio on January 27, 2022

Billboard claiming MLK was a Republican

The Uses and Abuses of the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Politics have diluted King's dream.

by Andre E. Key via Religion Dispatches on January 13, 2022

Painting of the first Thanksgiving

The First Thanksgiving is a Key Chapter in America's Origin Story

What happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more.

by Peter C. Mancall via The Conversation on November 22, 2021

Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Apotheosis of Washington

What a video of an Jan. 6 insurrectionist illustrates about race, religion, and nationalism in the MAGA movement.

by Philip Gorski via Uncivil Religion on November 3, 2021

Illustration of Henry David Thoreau and Lidian Emerson looking into each other's eyes

Thoreau in Love

The writer had a deep bond with his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. But he also had a profound connection with Emerson’s wife.

by James Marcus via The New Yorker on October 11, 2021

QAnon proponent and Trump supporters

Bad Information

Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.

by Nicolas Guilhot via Boston Review on August 23, 2021

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass and the Trouble with Critical Race Theory

A favorite icon of critical race theory proponents doesn’t say what they want him to say.

by Robert S. Levine via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 2, 2021

Olympic surfer

Centuries of U.S. Imperialism Made Surfing an Olympic Sport

With an eye toward U.S. power, Americans spread the sport making its Olympic debut.

by Thomas Blake Earle via Made By History on July 25, 2021

A church building situated amongst mountains.

Thoreau In Good Faith

A literary examination of Henry David Thoreau's life and legacy today.

by Caleb Smith via Public Books on July 19, 2021

African American mother and children in peach vignette, c. 1885.

A Mother’s Influence

How African American women represented Black motherhood in the early nineteenth century.

by Crystal Webster via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 9, 2021

Artist's rendition of Omar ibn Said

A Quest for the True Identity of Omar ibn Said, a Muslim Man Enslaved in the Carolinas

Omar ibn Said was captured in Senegal at 37 and enslaved in Charleston. A devout Muslim, he later converted to the Christian faith of his enslavers. Or did he?

by Jennifer Berry Hawes via Post and Courier on May 27, 2021

cheez-its

A Brief History of the Cheez-It

America's iconic orange cracker turns 100 this year.

by Leo DeLuca via Smithsonian on May 21, 2021

Patchwork collage of Joe Biden

All the President’s Historians

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?

by Daniel N. Gullotta via The Bulwark on April 20, 2021

QAnon and the Satanic Panics of Yesteryear

What they can teach us about what to expect.

by Daniel N. Gullotta via The Bulwark on February 25, 2021

A picture of the Dudley Diggs House

At William & Mary, a School for Free and Enslaved Black Children is Rediscovered

Opened in 1760, the school may be the oldest still-standing building of its kind.

by Joe Heim via Washington Post on February 25, 2021

Veteran and militia during 1919 Chicago Race Riot

Rereading 'Darkwater'

W.E.B. DuBois, 100 years ago.

by Chad Williams via National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) on February 22, 2021

A sign being held at the January 6 Trump rally that depicts Donald Trump holding the head of Karl Marx.

Vikings, Crusaders, Confederates

Misunderstood historical imagery at the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

by Matthew Gabriele via Perspectives on History on January 12, 2021

On the Insidious ‘Laziness Lie’ at the Heart of the American Myth

Devon Price wonders why we equate sloth with evil.

by Devon Price via Literary Hub on January 6, 2021

The Milky Way above Lanyon Quoit, a neolithic burial chamber in Cornwall, England.

What Big History Overlooks In Its Myth

Sweeping the human story into a cosmic tale is a thrill but we should be wary about what is overlooked in the grandeur.

by Ian Hesketh via Aeon on December 16, 2020

merpeople

Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere?

An excerpt from a new book that explores the threat of made-up monsters in the age of imperial conquest.

by Vaughn Scribner via Literary Hub on September 28, 2020

circa 1795: Reverend Timothy Dwight IV (1752 - 1817)

What We Can Learn From Early American Conspiracy Theories

How an Illuminati conspiracy theory captured American imaginations in the nation’s earliest days.

by John Fea via TIME on September 24, 2020

‘Patriotic Education’ Is How White Supremacy Survives

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can.

by Jeff Sharlet via Gen on September 21, 2020

School room in rural Cidra, Puerto Rico

On Language and Colony

A linguistic trajectory of Puerto Rico's identity as the world’s oldest colony.

by Bianca P. Napoleoni Gregory via Library of Congress on September 21, 2020

Jimmy Carter waving from the stage of a rock and roll concert.

Rock & Roll President: How Musicians Helped Jimmy Carter to the White House

On a documentary in which stars from Bob Dylan to Nile Rodgers discuss how music played a vital role in the unknown politician’s rise to power.

by Jim Farber via The Guardian on September 20, 2020

The Free and the Brave

A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.

by Bill Donahue via The Atavist on August 24, 2020

Map of Boston from 1722.

This "Miserable African": Race, Crime, and Disease in Colonial Boston

The murder that challenged Cotton Mather’s complex views about race, slavery, and Christianity.

by Mark S. Weiner via Commonplace on July 13, 2020

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