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July 2018

July 31, 2018

Was Jonah’s Whale a Submarine? On the Bible and Science Fiction.

In some sense, each of these groups is peddling in science fiction---young earth creationists with...

March 2018

March 07, 2018

Oppressive Governments Are Overthrown by Organized Resistance Movements, not Armed Individuals

Does it help to arm organized resistance efforts? Absolutely, yes. But what about individual citizens?...

February 2018

February 08, 2018

When North African Bishops Handed Over the Scriptures and the Church Split

During Diocletian's persecution, many Christians went to their deaths. Others, however, including a number of...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

What Women Lost in the Protestant Reformation

With the coming of the Protestant Reformation, religious vocations that had offered women the opportunity...

November 23, 2017

This Thanksgiving, Let’s Talk about King Philip’s War

I grew up hearing about Squanto and Massasoit and the friendly Native Americans who traded...

October 2017

October 23, 2017

Benjamin Franklin and the Prayer That Didn’t Happen

Trump, in his comments, referenced Franklin's proposal that the Constitutional Convention begin each day with...

October 11, 2017

Just Who Was Jesus? An Exploration of Early Christianity

I know this is starting to sound like an infomercial for Ehrman, but I promise...

September 2017

September 14, 2017

Iowa Rep. Steve King Sounds Like the Antebellum American Colonization Society

While there is a lot that could be said about Rep. King's comments---and by that...

September 07, 2017

The Christian Hagiography of Robert E. Lee Endorsed by James Dobson and Tim LaHaye

I grew up in an evangelical home, but I must still be somewhat naive about...

September 06, 2017

How a White Supremacist Book Found Its Way Into a Family’s Homeschool

I was recently asked to go through several boxes of books at the home of...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

Tucker Carlson’s Strange Attempt to Condemn Slavery

I know this game. I've played it before, opposite people like Carlson. I played it...

August 22, 2017

You Cannot Be a Patriotic American and a Confederate

Christian colleges are all over the map on the Confederacy, the Antebellum South, and the...

August 15, 2017

I Already Answered Trump’s Question about Statues of Slave Owners

Asking these questions rhetorically, in a press conference, is the height of irresponsibility. If you...

August 08, 2017

Trump: “Make America Proud Again!”

Many conservatives have come to feel that in conversations about slavery, the treatment of Native...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

Confederate Monuments and “Historical Vandalism”

This weekend torch-wielding protesters chanted Nazi slogans as they rallied in defense of a statue...

March 2017

March 09, 2017

Why Trump’s Irish Merchandise Broke My Irony Meter

Does no one on Trump's team know anything about the history of immigration?

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Historian Kevin Kruse Takes Down Conservatives’ Betsy DeVos / Ruby Bridges Comparison

Kevin Kruse is a historian of the twentieth century U.S. at Princeton. He literally wrote...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Not Your Founding Fathers’ Electoral College

I've heard people that the founding fathers created the electoral system to ensure that candidates...

July 2016

July 07, 2016

The United States Is Not a Special Snowflake

I recently came upon an article in The American Thinker, written Steve McCann and titled...

July 04, 2016

Do Progressives Hate American History?

Progressives are not patriotic. Conservatives are patriotic---they celebrate our nation's history and heritage---while progressives hate...

April 2016

April 13, 2016

Making Bigotry Sound Beneficial: A Longstanding Tradition

It's a bad idea in general to assume an oppressor is being fully honest. It...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Why We Need the EPA

In an era when the only question at a Republican debate is how far the...

February 2016

February 08, 2016

Puncturing Declension Narratives

History is complicated, and fascinating, and profoundly messy. The narrative Reb Bradley tells in his...

December 2015

December 21, 2015

Evangelical Christianity and Syrian Refugees

Several months ago, while reading articles about the refugee crisis, I came upon a video...

December 14, 2015

Can We Talk about Those Faux Victorians?

I have no problem at all with the Crismans cosplaying the Victorian era, but I...

October 2013

October 10, 2013

The Homosexual Deathstyle; or, A Fixation on Gay Sex

While I don't think it has wide circulation today, Homosexuality: Legitimate, Alternative Deathstyle was pretty...

October 03, 2013

Weeds, Birth Control, Trees, and Temperance

Do you remember that image of the weed and flower I posted some time back?...

October 02, 2013

Michael Pearl and a Victorian Poem

I recently came upon a poem by J. E. Pollock. It was published in 1883...

August 2013

August 16, 2013

A Stroll in History: Suffragette Postcards

I recently came upon a scattering of old suffragette postcards via the Atlantic and I...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Vision Forum’s History of America Mega-Conference

Ahab of The Republic of Gilead attended Vision Forum's History of America Mega-Conference earlier this...