Take & Read: American religious history
Five new books about myths and narratives that shape religion in the United States
Take & read: New books in American religious history
An ever-renewing narrative of community formed by difference
The complex story of race and religion in the American South
Paul Harvey's history shows how things could have gone very differently.
The feminist Bushnell
Katharine Bushnell was a reforming whirlwind who left the mission field to campaign for temperance and against the sex trade.
Lessons in Belonging from a Church-Going Commitment Phobe, by Erin S. Lane
Erin Lane wants to help millennials and those who love them understand the real countercultural impulse of the church.
Dry country
If ever the phrase "unintended consequences" applied to a situation, it
does to the epic story of the 18th Amendment and its undoing by the 21st.
A review of 97 Orchard
Jane Ziegelman writes in 97 Orchard that gefilte fish, one of many immigrant food traditions she describes, came to New York City's tenements with German-speaking Jews at the end of t...
Jamesian analysis
When I read a biography, I usually find myself poking, like a nosy houseguest, into shadowy corners that the author, for whatever reason, left unlit....
American Christians and Islam:Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to theAge of Terrorism
Before September 2001, many Americans may have believed that Islam...
Dwelling Place
Thirty years ago Robert Manson Myers sifted through the letters of Georgia planter Charles Colcock Jones (1805–1863) to produce an award-winning...
