The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life.
Recent Episodes
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Episode 124: Christian Capitalism in Early America
Dec 12, 2023 – 54:40 -
Episode 123: Drew Gilpin Faust on Growing-Up at Midcentury
Dec 3, 2023 – 44:58 -
Episode 122: The Metropolitan Sound of the American Century
Nov 7, 2023 – 52:44 -
Episode 121: Reagan's Evangelical Vision for America
Oct 30, 2023 – 54:04 -
Episode 120: Popular Historians in Post-War America
Oct 16, 2023 – 01:03:10 -
Episode 119: How the Social Gospel Undermined Social Democracy
Oct 9, 2023 – 58:25 -
Episode 118: Evangelicals and the Environment
Oct 2, 2023 – 57:53 -
Episode 117: The Idea of Fraternity in America
Sep 25, 2023 – 50:11 -
Episode 116: Historical Thinking for a Democracy
Aug 22, 2023 – 51:59 -
Episode 115: Evangelicalism: Its Metaphors and Stories
Aug 14, 2023 – 48:31 -
Episode 114: How Slavery Helped Grow the American Catholic Church
Aug 7, 2023 – 46:14 -
Episode 113: The "Jesus Revolution"
Jun 25, 2023 – 54:24 -
Episode 112: The Search for God in a New York Publishing House
Jun 18, 2023 – 49:55 -
Episode 111: The Evangelical Battle Over the End Times
Jun 11, 2023 – 01:11:20 -
Episode 110: "How Black Ball Saved the Soul of the NBA"
Jun 5, 2023 – 01:04:39 -
Episode 109: The Voice and Faith of Sojourner Truth
Feb 12, 2023 – 01:19:22 -
Episode 108: The Life and Legacy of C. Vann Woodward
Jan 30, 2023 – 01:02:14 -
Episode 107: The Politics of Smallpox in Revolutionary America
Dec 19, 2022 – 01:04:14 -
Episode 106: Bruce Springsteen's "Long Walk Home"
Dec 5, 2022 – 54:03 -
Episode 105: "Heathenism" in America
Nov 6, 2022 – 48:23 -
Episode 104: The Roots of American Public Education
Oct 23, 2022 – 01:12:10 -
Episode 103: Spiritual Socialists
Oct 9, 2022 – 58:04 -
Episode 102: The Ghosts of Colonial Williamsburg
Sep 25, 2022 – 01:04:33 -
Episode 101: "Exhibiting Evangelicalism"
Sep 12, 2022 – 01:00:59 -
Episode 100: Christian Historians as Activists?
Apr 24, 2022 – 01:09:04 -
Episode 99: Historicizing the Search for Roots
Apr 10, 2022 – 01:09:16 -
Episode 98: Conversions: Spiritual and Political
Mar 27, 2022 – 58:15 -
Episode 97: In Search of George Washington's Hair
Mar 13, 2022 – 58:01 -
Episode 96: Thinking Historically about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Mar 6, 2022 – 44:37 -
Episode 95: The Lost Promise of American Universities
Feb 20, 2022 – 01:18:42 -
Episode 94: Gettysburg, 1963
Feb 6, 2022 – 01:08:17 -
Episode 93: A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America
Oct 31, 2021 – 56:10 -
Episode 92: Original Sin and the History of American Democracy
Oct 3, 2021 – 58:50 -
Episode 91: Providential History and the Pacific Northwest
Sep 19, 2021 – 01:03:35 -
Episode 90: "The Gospel According to Charles Lindbergh"
Sep 4, 2021 – 01:04:41 -
Episode 89: The Heretical John C. Calhoun
Aug 22, 2021 – 01:03:30 -
Episode 88: History Education on the Great Plains
Aug 1, 2021 – 55:29 -
Episode 87: Religion and the American Revolution
Jul 18, 2021 – 54:23 -
Episode 86: A Conversation with Eric Miller, Editor of Current
Jul 4, 2021 – 01:01:15 -
Episode 85: Reckoning with Confederate Monuments
Jun 27, 2021 – 53:13 -
Episode 84: "How 'Biblical Womanhood' Became Gospel Truth'"
Jun 13, 2021 – 01:00:39 -
Episode 83: Celebrity in the Early American Republic
Feb 14, 2021 – 01:07:12 -
Episode 82: The Fastest Game in the World
Feb 7, 2021 – 01:18:35 -
Episode 81: God's Law and Order
Jan 31, 2021 – 01:18:31 -
Episode 80: How Alternative Media Broke Our Democracy
Jan 17, 2021 – 01:03:55 -
Episode 79: John Foster Dulles and the Cold War Protestant Left
Dec 13, 2020 – 01:08:53 -
Episode 78: "How a 1630 Sermon Shaped American Exceptionalism"
Dec 6, 2020 – 53:52 -
Episode 77: The Art of Living
Nov 29, 2020 – 01:23:56 -
Episode 76: Howard Thurman: Theologian, Mystic, Activist
Nov 22, 2020 – 53:23 -
Episode 75: The Jefferson Bible
Nov 15, 2020 – 44:34
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