The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life.

After an uneventful one-term presidency, John Quincy Adams was elected to the House of Rep... more

How did the suburbs shape American Catholicism? Today's guest on the podcast is historian ... more

Annette Laing, a "proper historian" with a Ph.D. in the field, wants to dispel the myth th... more

What is the difference between "fortress thinking" and "pilgrimage thinking"? How do these... more

What is a “white liberal” and why do people hate them so much? Conservatives hate them for... more

Our guest in this episode, historian Andrew Hartman, writes, "Americans are thinking about... more

Our guest on this episode of the podcast is Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National C... more

Most of the stories we will tell about the American Revolution during the nation's 250th a... more

Many Americans have heard of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. But d... more

In this episode, we talk with David Waldstreicher, author of the George Washington Prize-w... more

In this episode we talk with historian Paul Putz about the history of Christianity and spo... more

What does it mean to be Black and evangelical—and why has that story been so often overloo... more

In this episode we talk with Wesleyan University historian Joseph Slaughter, author of Fai... more

She was a privileged baby boomer who grew up on a horse farm in segregated Virginia. By he... more

In his new book Bridge & Tunnel Boys, historian Jim Cullen discusses how Billy Joel and Br... more

How did Ronald Reagan use the media to shape his evangelical vision for America, a vision ... more

Should professional historians write for the general public? If so, who is the "public" th... more

There was a profound difference between Christian Socialism and the so-called "Social Gosp... more

Most Americans probably think of conservative evangelicals as climate change deniers who b... more