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...