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.
An Incomplete History returns from winter break with a special episode. We discuss the biggest events of 2019 and put them into broader historical...
Join Hilary and Geoff as we reflect on Christmases past. We add our own stories to overview as to how Christmas became, perhaps, the...
Join us this week as we discuss how prevalent alcohol consumption was in the British Colonial period and the Early Republic. Hint: it was...