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...
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Populists in 1895: America “is not a Christian nation”
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...
Let’s Restore America to Its Christian Past When Everyone Was Getting Drunk
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 […]
Quote of the Day
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 […]