I am finding quite informative the book The Flag + The Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy (2022) by Ph...

In early 1836, Ewing Young purchased a large iron cauldron from Courtney Walker. Walker had the job of disposing of the goods left behind by...

Two religious traditions are pervasive in American culture. The evangelical tradition is the spiritual; civil religion , the political. Thes...

Few United States presidents were as avowedly expressionistic as President James Knox Polk. During his administration (1845-1849) more land ...

In 1938, as often before and after, Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, offered a reading of the significance of the four U.S. P...

My evening history class ends at 10:00pm. After the short drive home, I need to read for a few minutes before I can fall asleep. Last night...

Paul Johnson’s majestic A History of the American People (1997) purports to address three fundamental questions. These questions concern e...

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and i...

Chiasmus to Columbus Lewis and Clark did not bring the West into U.S. history, they brought the United States into western history . ...

Roasting Fowl There are many traditions that Americans will celebrate. Most are rooted in myth, but even these myths are rooted in histo...