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.
Hilary and Geoff are back to discuss the Second Amendment (that’s the one about guns). Join us as we trace the antecedents to the...
Welcome to part two of our three-part series on the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. In this episode we discuss the Taney court...
We continue our exploration of the history of cults in America this week with a discussion of two infamous groups from the 1990s: The...