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W. Clark Gilpin

W. Clark Gilpin is emeritus professor of history at the University of Chicago Divinity School and author of Religion Around Emily Dickinson.

The historian’s energetic affirmation of the unfinished—whether books or lives—invariably made encounters with him memorable events.

February 26, 2025

America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. By Mark A. Noll. Oxford University Press, 602 pp., $35.00....

December 3, 2002

By Charles E. Mitchell, Individualism and Its Discontent: Appropriations of Emerson. 1880-1950. (University of Massachusetts Press, 220 pp.)...

July 14, 1998

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