Daniel Burge is Associate Editor of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and Coordinator of the KHS Research Fellowship Program at the Kentucky Historical Society. This interview is based on his new book, A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse...
American empire
The Author’s Corner with Matthew Dougherty
Matthew Dougherty is Assistant Professor of History at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. This interview is based on his book, Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America (University of Oklahoma Press,...
The Author’s Corner with Mahshid Mayar
Mahshid Mayar is Assistant Professor of North American Literature and Culture at Bielefeld University. This interview is based on her new book, Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire (University of North...
Dispatches from the American Academy of Religion 2013–Part 3
As part of The Way of Improvement Leads Home‘s commitment to covering major academic conferences, we offer Adam Parsons‘s third and final dispatch from the floor of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Baltimore. I hope you have enjoyed these reports as...
In (Partial) Defense of Ron Paul and “Theologically Astute” Politics
Peter Laarman, the executive director of Progressive Christians United, has helped me to understand why I find myself quietly cheering for Ron Paul in the GOP primary race. I am not a libertarian, nor do I condone Paul’s less than […]