This week we delve into a topic we've been promising to cover for some time, the Second Great Awakening. This was the religious movement in the United States that spawned the Mormons and Adventists as well as the evangelical factions of more mainline churches. It truly was a time when American Christianity came into its own. As always, though, we'll complicate things a bit and talk about the First Great Awakening and other religious movements before the founding of the United States.
Brown v Board of Education, Roe v Wade, Loving v Virginia - Supreme Court decisions in the 20th century have affected the lives of...
In this episode Hilary and Geoff delve into the historiography of one of the most imfamous events in American history, the Salem Witchcraft Trials...
After a week off we return to our special series in honor of Black History Month. This time we discuss the two primary ways...