Alexander Ames is Collections Engagement Manager at The Rosenbach, a historic house museum and special collections library affiliated with the Free Library of Philadelphia. This interview is based on his new book, The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and...
German Immigrants
James Dobson Visits the Border and Shows His Nativism
Court evangelical James Dobson, the evangelical who is most associated with the idea of “family values,” visited the Mexican border and wrote a letter to his supporters. I have published it here: Dear Friends, Several weeks ago, I was invited...
When Women Fought for Suffrage by Disparaging German Immigrants
Sara Egge, an assistant professor of history at Centre College, reminds us that history is complicated. Over at Zocalo, Egge shows how some women fighting for the right to vote “saw German men as backward, ignorant, and less worthy of citizenship...