holiday posts

Happy Thanksgiving!

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The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog is taking some time off over the holiday weekend. See you on Monday!

Presidential love letters

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Here is your Valentine’s Day post. It comes, via LitHub, from Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Live and Lust from the White House. A taste: When a man writes a letter to a woman […]

A very busy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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I can’t remember such a busy–at least in terms of news–January 15th. I’m on a research trip in a southern city that is treating a few inches of snow as if it was some kind of natural disaster, so it […]

Merry Christmas!

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I’ve pointed this out before, but I will point it out again. Notice that Linus drops his security blanket when he says “fear not.”

The original message behind the American Christmas was not very evangelical

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Historian Daniel K. Williams, a Current contributing editor, explains in a recent piece at Christianity Today. A taste: Conservative evangelical Christians have sometimes been eager advocates of the modern campaign to “keep Christ in Christmas” and preserve the traditional religious meaning of […]

Thomas Jefferson: hero or villain?

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The title of this post is not, primarily, a historical question. It is primarily a moral question. We should keep the complexity of the past in mind as we celebrate Independence Day. Check out early American historian’s Jack Rakove‘s recent […]

How Thanksgiving became a capitalist holiday

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In Monday’s Evangelical Roundup (available twice a week to Current patrons at the Surface level), I included a piece by Wallbuilders president Tim Barton in which he claims that the seventeenth-century Pilgrims defeated socialism. Here is Barton: We often think […]