A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Hyperlocal history
Should Christianity be our national religion?
America’s first slavery museum
Glen Altschuler reviews Peter Manseau’s One Nation Under Gods: A New American History
More on the Black Robed Regiment from Boston 1775
22 maps on the religious landscape of the United States
Religion and the history of ideas
Forgotten images of Islam in American history
Paul Putz reviews Josh McMullen, Under the Big Top: Big Tent Revivalism and American Culture
The Front Porch Republic on The History Manifesto
Historic sites in Oscar-nominated films
The American Antiquarian Society discovers Omeka
Do the culture wars have secular roots?
A professor discovers the value of the local historical society
What professors should do when they are no longer interesting
John Wilsey reviews Peter Gardella, American Civil Religion: What Americans Hold Sacred
I'm surprised that the New Republic article and that poll hasn't gotten more attention.
For me, the closing two paragraphs are keepers.
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