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.
In this episode Hilary and Geoff discuss common misconceptions about medicine during the Civil War. They also talk about key advances that take place...
We continue our exploration of the history of cults in America this week with a discussion of two infamous groups from the 1990s: The...
So in the age of Covid 19 many educators and students have found themseleves needing to use tools they are unfamiliar with. This series...