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What has been gained and lost from overlooking histories about the wild heterogeneity of networks that existed for well over a century?

Its embrace of an ignominious president is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with the movement’s embrace of white supremacy and illiberal politics.

The peculiarities of how American Christianity took shape help explain believers’ vulnerability to conspiratorial thinking and misinformation.

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

Historian John Turner tells the story of Plymouth Colony with nuance and care.

Despite extensive historiography, most people are not aware that the Society of Jesus owned people.

Elements of the Puritans’ unique worldview were handed down for generations and were carried westward by their descendants, the people we call Yankees.

Power, plague and Christianity were closely intertwined in 17th-century New England.

A lesson on contextualizing history.

Why the Exodus must remain central to the African American church.

A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther King Jr.‘s moral and ethical vision.

In the post-war era, a wave of American young evangelists flocked to Europe to claim the continent for Christ. And the exchanges went both ways.

For some Lebanese immigrants, religion was a comfort, providing a sense of home in an new world. For others, it was a constant reminder of what was left behind.

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.

American isn't a Christian nation, but missionaries have always played an integral role in U.S. diplomacy.

The genre has been disdained by the church and mocked by secular culture. That just reassured practitioners that they were rebels on a righteous path.

The Mormon church is still grappling with a racial past.

Fiery, energetic and preached by charismatic frontmen, Pentecostal Christianity had a big influence on rock and roll in its formative years.

To begin with, her formal name was Amonute.

Popularized images of female hula dancers have deviated far from their origins and perpetuated stereotypes.

American Indians and the tumult in their cultures precipitated by the arrival of alcohol.

Reflections on the life of Little Richard, the star who mistook a satellite for a ball of fire.

The terms meaning has shifted throughout Christianity’s long history, making it difficult to define.

The short life and long legacy of the 19th-century reformer William Apess.

Popular early U.S. tales depicted Muslims as menacing figures in faraway lands or cardboard moral paragons.

The most ambitious social experiment in American history that until 1877, explicitly rejected the core values of Victorian capitalism.

Jews have long been feared as the power behind inexplicable evils. Responsibility for the African slave trade has recently been added to this list of crimes.