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Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey teaches American history at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, blogs at Religion in American History, and is author of Bounds of Their Habitation: Race and Religion in American History.
The black social gospel
In American history, some lives have mattered; others have not. That difference fundamentally has been a racial one.
February 3, 2016
The world slavery made
Edward Baptist so powerfully captures the pain and tragedy of plantation slavery that I had to force myself to turn each page.
January 8, 2015
With malice toward Lincoln
John McKee Barr constructs a persuasive narrative of Lincoln loathing—by Lost Causers, neo-Confederates, libertarians, and even some liberals.
September 10, 2014
An Idea Whose Time Has Come, by Todd S. Purdum
Todd Purdum's work of journalistic history on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is ultimately a story about politicians doing the right thing.
June 22, 2014
The Fall of the House of Dixie, by Bruce Levine
Bruce Levine begins this compelling book with a prologue recounting Edgar Allan Poe’s famous story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” setting up an elaborate metaphor for the demise of antebellum so...
April 23, 2013
Faith of the founders
John Fea
brings humility, patience and objectivity to controversial questions of religion and the founding era of
American history. His book is a model of scholarly restraint.
June 2, 2011
Wifely submission: The SBC Resolution
Media coverage of the Southern Baptist Convention’s declaration that wives should “submit graciously” to their husbands has been surprisingly extensive....
July 1, 1998
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