David M. Emmons is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Montana. This interview is based on his new book, History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2024). JF: What […]
Working class Christianity
The working class Christian faith of Shawn Fain in historical context
We have covered Fain’s Christian faith before at this blog. Check out our posts here and here. Today CNN is running a long-form piece by John Blake on the religious beliefs of the leader of the United Auto Workers. Here […]
Episode 119: “How the Social Gospel Undermined Social Democracy”
There was a profound difference between Christian Socialism and the so-called “Social Gospel.” Janine Giordano Drake explains these differences in her new book The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement. Drake argues that […]