Princeton University religion professor Albert Raboteau‘s book Slave Religion was the first book I ever read on the history of the religion and the African American experience. Here is Adelle Banks at Religion News Service: Albert J. Raboteau, an American […]
obituaries
Charles Sellers, RIP
I read Charles Sellers‘s 1991 book The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 during my first year of graduate school. While I learned much from the book, I was never convinced by his portrayal of American farmers as “antinomian” evangelicals who […]
James Loewen, RIP
I never met James Loewen, but I have used his book Teaching What Really Happened once or twice in my “Teaching History” course at Messiah University. I remember about twenty years ago I gave a talk at a conference (I […]
Rachel Zoll, RIP
Such sad news. She was an outstanding religion reporter and always said such complimentary things about this blog. Here is the AP: Rachel Zoll, who for 17 years as religion writer for The Associated Press endeared herself to colleagues, competitors […]
Walter Mondale, RIP
Mondale was a Minnesota senator, vice-president, and presidential candidate. Here is The Washington Post: Walter F. Mondale, the former Democratic senator and vice president whose unusually candid and forward-looking bid for the pinnacle of American politics was blocked by President […]
Robert Middlekauff, RIP
Middlekauff is best known as the author of The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. It was the first book to appear in the Oxford History of the United States series, which also includes James McPherson’s Battle Cry for Freedom: […]