What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? It looks likes COVID-19 was present at Robert Jeffress’s Sunday morning political rally at First Baptist-Dallas. Newt Gingrich is on the Eric Metaxas Show today talking about his new book Trump and the American […]
Daniel T. Rodgers
The “Age of Fracture” and Evangelicalism
In his 2011 Bancroft Prize-winning book The Age of Fracture, Princeton intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers writes: Across multiple fronts of ideational battle, from the speeches of presidents to books of social and cultural theory, conceptions of human nature that in […]
An Introduction to the Winthrop Family Papers
Peter Olsen-Harbich, a Ph.D Candidate at William & Mary, reflects on his experience working with the Winthrop Family Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Here is a taste: Among the austere manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s collection resides an […]
Is Jimmy Carter an Antidote to Trump?
David Siders thinks so. Here is a taste of his recent piece at Politico: “Carter almost takes us out of the entire realm of what our politics has become,” said Paul Maslin, a top Democratic pollster who worked on the […]
Was America Born Capitalist?
We are working hard to get Princeton University historian Daniel Rodgers on the podcast. He is the author of As a City Upon a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon. (He will be featured on the Author’s […]
On Balcony Heroes
Many media outlets gave Donald Trump high praise for the so-called “balcony heroes” he used during his first State of the Union Address last week. The bloggers at Harvard University Press remind us that Ronald Reagan was the first president […]