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American Revolution

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Rob Parkinson, a colleague from my master's program many years ago, has a great editorial in the Times on the connections between the fear of slave revolts and American independence. FOR more than two centuries, we have been reading the Declaration of Independence wrong. Or...

American Secularism

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On May 30, 2016

For your evening reading, check out this Sam Haselby discussion of the United States as a secularist nation, including understanding its Protestant intellectual origins, the heresy of men like Thomas.

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This is the grave of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg. Muhlenberg, a son of the founder of the Lutheran Church in America, was a Pennsylvania minister and supporter of the American Revolution. He served in the Continental Congress in 1779 and 1780 and then in the Pennsylvania...
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Valley Forge Americans

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On October 13, 2015
The Tea Party isn't through tying their own insanity to Revolutionary War touchstones. A member of the conservative caucus that effectively forced House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) out of the speaker's race said Friday one of the GOP's true "Valley Forge Americans" should succeed...

Patriotic Tetanus

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On July 4, 2014

This July 4, remember the true cost of freedom: These wild, towering conflagrations garnered support at the beginning of the twentieth century from an unlikely quarter: the national movement for.

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