Megan Bever is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Social Sciences Department at Missouri Southern State University. This interview is based on her new book, At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War...
Brendan J. J. Payne is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at North Greenville University. This interview is based on his new book, Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and...
This article appeared in the People’s Party Advocate, published in Ashland, Alabama, in 1895. Fri, Aug 16, 1895 – 4 · People’s Party Advocate (Ashland, Alabama) · Newspapers.com As I argued in the first four chapters of Was America Founded...
Christian nationalists today make historical arguments about how America used to be a Christian nation. They long to return to a golden age when Christian morality was at the heart of the republic. I wonder what folks like David Barton […]
This one comes from p. 167 of Daniel Walker Howe’s award-winning What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. On alcohol use in the early republic: “To entertain guests meant to ply them with several kinds of alcohol until some […]
