While students in my American Indian History course are taking an exam that some find brutal, I spend some time reading my scribblings in an...

Celebrations of John Calvin's birthday have brought out a flurry of pronouncements of an old idea. Many Americans in the nineteenth cent...

History is eloquent in declaring that American democracy was born of Christianity and that Christianity was Calvinism. Loraine Boettner, Th...

John Woolman utterly lacks a sense of his own depravity. James Stripes, Fall 1989 Professor Alex Hammond sought to provoke discussion with ...

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