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.
This week Hilary and Geoff provide a little context for the often-torturous relationship between the United States and Iran. Join us as we discuss...
So, this week we start an extended series about the history of medicine. We start in Ancient Egypt and move around the Mediterranean finally...
This week we continue the discussion we started last time about utopian experiments and cults by covering two of the most fascinating and disturbing...