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Chosen People
The Canadians, of course.
by Mark Noll
July/August 2008

Loss and Recovery
Secularization and the university.
by Ken Stewart
July/August 2008

Cosmic Cuisine
Curry in the great scheme of things.
by Robert Eric Frykenberg
May/June 2008

Rise and Walk
Suffering, prayer, and divine healing.
by Lauren F. Winner
May/June 2008

All Shall Be Well
The distinctive emphasis on healing in Christian history.
by Heather D. Curtis
May/June 2008

Perfect
Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South.
by John G. Turner
May/June 2008

Cult of Personality
A valuable new biography of Aimee Semple McPherson
by Arlene M. Sánchez-Walsh
May/June 2008

Writing History in Public
A fresh look at the ancient world.
by Jerry Pattengale
May/June 2008

"Both Read the Same Bible"
Mark Noll on the Civil War as a theological crisis.
by Robert Tracy McKenzie
March/April 2008

A Chaplain's War
The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell.
by Gerald L. Sittser
March/April 2008

To Hell and Back
Why the Civil War was fought, and how it changed American death.
by Lauren F. Winner
March/April 2008

What's Democracy For?
The Lincoln-Douglas debates.
by Richard Carwardine
March/April 2008

"Unfinished Business"
The background and afterlife of the Gettysburg Address.
by Richard W. Etulain
March/April 2008

POLIticS
The Old World Order
Churchill's troublesome young men.
by Joe Loconte
March/April 2008

Ain't Misbehavin'
Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich raises eyebrows, demurely.
by Elesha Coffman
March/April 2008

Jerome, in the Library, with a Pen
A Christian scholar at work.
by Brad S. Gregory
March/April 2008

"This Ball of Liberty"
Whose progress?
by John Powell
January/February 2008

New Maps, Old Maps
Christian history, revised.
by Philip Jenkins
January/February 2008

Post-Postcolonial Biography
Stanley in Africa.
by Ted Olsen
January/February 2008

Enlightened Racism
Not from the Bible.
by Timothy Larsen
January/February 2008

Radical Asymmetry
A comparative study of preventive attack and weapons of mass destruction.
by Mark Moyar
November/December 2007

"Fear God. Honor the Emperor."
Church history from a German viewpoint.
by Mary Noll Venables
November/December 2007

Gothic Modern
The many faces of medievalism.
by Edward Short
November/December 2007

"Nothing in My Hands I Bring"
The evangelical conversion narrative.
by John R. Tyson
November/December 2007

The "Old" Evangelicalism
You know—mysticism, the Kabbalah, alchemy, Paracelsianism.
by Catherine A. Brekus
November/December 2007

Before the Crusades
The early Arab conquests.
by Philip Jenkins
November/December 2007

"Hanging Gardens and Shimmering Oases"
The Middle East from three angles.
by Paul Merkley
November/December 2007

A Palestinian Life
The idiosyncratic yet exemplary story of Sari Nusseibeh.
by Harold Fickett
November/December 2007

Ambiguous Ecstasies
Visited by the Friend of Souls—or the Enemy?
by David Martin
November/December 2007

9/11, 1857
The Mountain Meadows Massacre.
by John G. Turner
September/October 2007

That Loving Feeling
A Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Henry Ward Beecher.
by Harold Fickett
July/August 2007

POLIticS
Capitalist Tool
The real Ben Franklin.
by Allen C. Guelzo
July/August 2007

CHRISTIAN VISION PROJECT
The Patrick Paradox
by Dana L. Robert
July/August 2007

Reconversion
A fresh look at faith and doubt in Victorian England
by David Hempton
July/August 2007

POLIticS
"We Did Not Know!"
Nazi propaganda and the Holocaust.
by Randall L. Bytwerk
July/August 2007

"The Lord Shall Judge"
Providence reconsidered.
by Brad S. Gregory
July/August 2007

Aromatheology
Scenting salvation.
by Lauren F. Winner
May/June 2007

Back to the Bible
A new Christian heartland.
by Joel Carpenter
May/June 2007

Not So Exceptional After All
American evangelicalism reassessed.
by David Bebbington
May/June 2007

Don't Circle the Wagons
Indians and settlers.
by P. J. Hill
March/April 2007

POLITICS
The Great Loser
The ambiguous legacy of William Jennings Bryan.
by Eugene MCCarraher
January/February 2007

Guadalcanal
Turning point in the Pacific War.
by Donald A. Yerxa
January/February 2007

THE SCIENCE PAGES
Chemical Reactions
Nerve gas and other unconventional weapons.
by Neil Gussman
January/February 2007

History with a Smirk
Richard Hofstadter and scholarly fashion.
by Allen C. Guelzo
January/February 2007

POLITICS
How Did It Start?
The origins of Irish sectarianism.
by Mary Noll Venables
January/February 2007

Darwin's Graveyards
Yes, he really was a Social Darwinist.
by Edward T. Oakes
November/December 2006

POLITICS
Because of Dixie
The peculiar role of the South in modern American politics.
by Collin Hansen
November/December 2006

Downward, Outward, Later
A superb new history of Christianity.
by Philip Jenkins
September/October 2006

Fish Story
Eel, anyone?
by Tyler Cowen
July/August 2006

Why Don't They Just Speak English?
The World Atlas of Language Structures.
by John H. McWhorter
July/August 2006

What's Law Got to Do with It?
Recovering a lost heritage.
by David A. Skeel, Jr.
July/August 2006

Ambiguous Utopias
The formative history of suburbia.
by Julia Vitullo-Martin
May/June 2006

Auspicious Criticism
The challenge of Christopher Shannon.
by Wilfred M. McClay
May/June 2006

Clashing Languages of Liberty
by Mark Noll
May/June 2006

Virtuous Like Us?
by John T. McGreevy
May/June 2006

Grapes of Wrath
A moral history of the Civil War.
by Edward J. Blum
March/April 2006

Love Your Enemies
How Lincoln turned his rivals into allies.
by Ronald C. White, Jr.
March/April 2006

Reconstruction Reappraised
Don't skip the chapter after the Civil War.
by Allen C. Guelzo
March/April 2006

Baseball's Prehistory
Before Barry Bonds.
by Bruce Kuklick
March/April 2006

The Sword of the Lord
How "otherwordly" fundamentalism became a political power.
by George Marsden
March/April 2006

Historical Fictions
Making it up.
by D. G. Hart
January/February 2006

Two Cheers for Lincoln
A matter of conviction.
by Allen Guelzo
January/February 2006

Ireland's Forgotten Protestants
The rest of the story.
by Mary Noll Venables
January/February 2006

"These Pigs on the Face of the Earth"
Israel's most relentless critic.
by Paul Charles Merkley
January/February 2006

Saints Rising
Is Mormonism the first new world religion since the birth of Islam?
by Gerald R. McDermott
January/February 2006

Who's That on the $50 Bill?
Placing Joseph Smith in America's story.
by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
January/February 2006

Puritans, Planters, and American Intellectual History
The Mind of the Master Class is a masterpiece.
by Harry S. Stout
November/December 2005

Oh No, Polio
A disease that left its mark.
by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
November/December 2005

The Bible in American Public Life, 1860-2005
Dilemmas at the center, insights from the margins.
by Mark Noll
September/October 2005

Reverse Hagiography
A new biography of Saint Augustine.
by Jason Byassee
September/October 2005

Unpalatable to Modern Sensibilities
Which Jonathan Edwards?
by Allen C. Guelzo
September/October 2005

Territorial Ambitions
A geographical history of America.
by Bruce Kuklick
September/October 2005

A Mythical Jewishness
Is modernity a Jewish creation?
by Jonathon Kahn
July/August 2005

When the Sky Was Orange
An environmental history of China.
by John Copeland Nagle
July/August 2005

The Return of Universal History
Taking the long view.
by Donald A. Yerxa
July/August 2005

The Rise & Fall of Anne Boleyn
She gambled and lost.
By Brooke Allen
May/June 2005

A Most Unclubbable Man
The curious and instructive pilgrimage of Orestes Augustus Brownson.
By Timothy Larsen
May/June 2005

Continental Drift
Lemuria and other lost Edens.
By Philip Jenkins
May/June 2005

A Mapping Mission
Moral geography.
By David N. Livingstone
May/June 2005

A Preaching Woman
The remarkable story of a former slave sheds light on the origins of African American Christianity.
By Jonathon Kahn
May/June 2005

The Unmaking of Liberia
How and why the grand experiment failed.
By Randal Jelks
March/April 2005

Missing Persons
A novel set against Liberia's brutal civil war.
By John Utz
March/April 2005

To Skellig Michael, Monastery in the Sky
In search of sacred places.
By Daniel Taylor
March/April 2005

Patrick Redux—Again
The Western Church's continuing romance with Celtic Christianity.
By T. M. Moore
March/April 2005

Who Invented the 1980s?
The Carter decade.
By Philip Jenkins
March/April 2005

Rites of Passage
Debs and pledges.
By Lauren F. Winner
March/April 2005

How Liberal Was It?
Gladstone's religion.
By John Powell
January/February 2005

The Burden of History
How old is historicism?
By Thomas Albert Howard
January/February 2005

The Chastened Hopes of the Civil Rights Movement
The anchor of King's dream.
By Charles Marsh
January/February 2005

The Lincoln Supremacy
John Wilkes Booth assassinated the president. Democracy proved harder to kill.
By Allen C. Guelzo
November/December 2004

Hoover to Hiroshima
So you think American history from the Great Depression through World War II holds no surprises? Read on.
By Justus D. Doenecke
November/December 2004

Americanizing Jews—Judaizing America
350 years of Jewish life in America.
By Ronald Wells
November/December 2004

Lewis the Letter-Writer
An "unconscious autobiography" in two volumes of correspondence.
By Michael Ward
September/October 2004

The Reformation Question
What does "Catholic" mean?
By Mary Noll Venables
September/October 2004

The Groves of Academe
Max Weber and the Enchanted Cage
by Eugene McCarraher
September/October 2004

An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars
Mark Noll delivers the first installment of a five-volume, multiauthor history of evangelicalism.
by David Hempton
July/August 2004

Buyer Beware
La Cession de la Louisiane and the price of national greatness.
by Kenneth M. Startup
July/August 2004

Coming To Terms With Jefferson
Sinister, extraordinary—the paradoxes of a founding father.
by Preston Jones
July/August 2004

The Mahatma
Gandhi unvarnished.
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
July/August 2004

Hopeful Pessimism
The lessons of the civil rights movement turn out to be quite alien to liberal pieties.
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
July/August 2004

The Lonely Emancipator
Lincoln's legal prudence in ending the "peculiar institution."
By Lucas E. Morel
May/June 2004

Jekyll and Hyde's Hometown
The capital of the Scottish Enlightenment.
By Neil Dickson
May/June 2004

The Nazi Seduction
Why do Hitler and the Nazis continue to fascinate?
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
May/June 2004

Martin Marty's Martin Luther
A masterful life of the Reformer.
by Kenneth L. Woodward
May/June 2004

The New History of Missions
The difference between "global Christianity" and "world Christianity."
by Mark Noll
March/April 2004

Remembrance of Things Past
Edmund Burke, the Enlightenment, and postmodernity.
by Daniel E. Ritchie
March/April 2004

Catholic + American = ?
How a communal body made its peace with liberal democracy.
by Allen Guelzo
March/April 2004

The Invention of Modern Witchcraft
A surprising genealogy of neopaganism.
by Irving Hexham
January/February 2004

The Forgotten Pope of Presbyterianism
Charles Hodge, once a towering figure in American theology.
by Paul Gutjahr
January/February 2004

"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
by Grayson Carter
January/February 2004

Should I Stay or Should I Go?
The Anglican question.
by Timothy Larsen
January/February 2004

Singing the Lord's Song
Travels in sacred music, from Eureka Springs to Salt Lake City.
by Mark Noll
January/February 2004

The Wright Brothers and the World They Made
The ascent of two bicycle boys from Dayton to Kitty Hawk.
by Albert Louis Zambone
November/December 2003

Learning to Be Modern
Notes on "the German university."
by Thomas Albert Howard
November/December 2003

Mission Run Amok
From savagery to civilization … and back again.
by David N. Livingstone
November/December 2003

Heaven on Earth
Economics and the secular faith in progress.
by Andrew P. Morriss
September/October 2003

Who Owns the Holy Land?
by Gary Burge
July/August 2003

Planet Dixie
Land of "happy slaves" and "gracious masters."
by Preston Jones
July/August 2003

Original Sin
Slavery and the biblical "curse of Ham."
by Laura L. Mitchell
July/August 2003

Still Writing the Civil War
Do we know this country too well?
by Tim Stafford
July/August 2003

How the War Might Have Ended
A conversation with historian Jay Winik.
Interview by Donald A. Yerxa
July/August 2003

Changing the Script
A discovery that altered the course of the war.
by Roger Lundin
July/August 2003

Going Back to Uncle Tom's Cabin
"The book that started the Civil War."
by John West
July/August 2003

Free to Do What?
Emancipation reconsidered.
by Allen C. Guelzo
July/August 2003

"The Wisest Radical of Them All"
by Richard Carwardine
July/August 2003

Telling Lincoln
by Grant Wacker
July/August 2003

Rebirth of a Nation
July/August 2003

"Baptism in Blood"
The Civil War and the creation of an American civil religion.
Harry S. Stout
July/August 2003

Getting It Half-Right
What's worth celebrating in Gods and Generals—and what's not.
by Mark Noll
July/August 2003

When Thou Goest Out to Battle
The religious world of Civil War soldiers.
by David Rolfs
July/August 2003

Long Live the Queen
Elizabeth I in her own words.
Jill Peláez Baumgaertner
May/June 2003

The Church with the Soul of a Nation
The tension between Catholic identity and national ideals.
D.G. Hart
May/June 2003

Who Paid for Secularization?
The agenda—and money—behind a social shift.
by Christian Smith
May/June 2003

What Happened in Salem?
The little-known role of Indian wars in an infamous historical episode.
by Thomas S. Kidd
March/April 2003

Railroads and Civil Rights
Race and labor aboard the iron horse.
by David Chappell
March/April 2003

Not-So-Poor Richard
Tracing market ideology in Protestant evangelical thought.
by David A. Skeel, Jr.
March/April 2003

Bankrupt Nation
The prevalence of debt in an oasis of prosperity.
by Stephen Smith
March/April 2003

The Shocking Truth About John Wesley
A visit to the cradle of Methodism.
by John D. Spalding
March/April 2003

A Man of Appearances
Ben Franklin, re-appraised.
by Bruce Kucklick
January/February 2003

Hindu Holy Wars
The myth of the holy cow.
by Chandra Mallampalli
January/February 2003

American Jihad
Manifest Destiny on the loose.
by Daniel R. Miller
January/February 2003

The Authority of the Song
Ojibwe singers enact hope through hymns.
by Wendy Murray Zoba
November/December 2002

A Forest of Time
A conversation with Peter Nabokov about Indian ways of history.
Interview by Donald A. Yerxa
November/December 2002

When Tulsa Burned
A forgotten episode in American terrorism.
by Todney Clapp
September/October 2002

Dancing with Ghosts
Wasicu at Chankpe Opi ( a white man at Wounded Knee).
by James Calvin Schaap
September/October 2002

Why Separation of Church and State Is Still a Good Idea
(even if it may not be what the Founders had in mind).
by Alan Wolfe
September/October 2002

Force of Habit
Hostility and condescension toward religion in the university.
by David S. Dockery
September/October 2002

Stranger in a Strange Land
Mixedblood Trickster
by John Wilson
July/August 2002

The Peaceable Kingdom?
Guns and the English
by Clayton E. Cramer
July/August 2002

People as Property
Face to face with slavery.
by Richard Lischer
July/August 2002

Red, White, and Gray
Andrew Jackson and Indian Removal
by Kenneth Moore Startup
July/August 2002

The Persistence of Indians: In Search of Native America
Introduction to the Series
by John Wilson
July/August 2002

Stranger in a Strange Land
"Are We Still Modern, Mommy?"
by John Wilson
May/June 2002

Disenchanting Voices
How not to write the history of the Reformation.
by Christopher Shannon
May/June 2002

With God on Our Side?
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address.
by Tim Stafford
May/June 2002

Slavery and Origional Intent
Was the Constitution rotten at the core?
by Allen C. Guelzo
May/June 2002

Maya Mysteries
There's power in the blood in the ruins of Copán.
by Wendy Murray Zoba
January/February 2002

Slavery and Broken Souls
Taking the measure of an immeasurable evil.
by Randal M. Jelks
November/December 2001

Jews, Christians, and God, part 4
The Problem of Edith Stein
German Jew, Catholic nun, Holocaust victim, saint.
by Lauren F. Winner
July/August 2001

Lincoln's America
Elevating the spirit of the Declaration of Independence above the legalism of the Constitution.
by Stephen L. Carter
July/August 2001

"The Tongue Is a Witch"
Speech and power in early America.
by Gerald McDermott
July/August 2001

"Our Brethren in North-America"
Why Methodism thrived.
by Ruth H. Bloch
July/August 2001

Colonial Modern
When historian Jon Butler looks at early America, he sees the lineaments of contemporary secular pluralism.
by A.G. Roeber
July/August 2001

Birmingham, 1963
Turning point of the civil rights movement.
by Tim Stafford
July/August 2001

One Nation, Under God
Why are some Christian scholars embarrassed by America's religious history?
by Barry Alan Shain
July/August 2001

"A Race Doomed to Recede and Disappear"
Re-placing Indians in American history.
by Richard Pointer
July/August 2001

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times
The moral complexity of the American Revolution.
by Mark Noll
July/August 2001

You Say You Want a Revolution
An introduction to a special section in the July/August issue commemorating the 225th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
by John Wilson
July/August 2001

The Best Book Ever Written on America
Tocqueville's perennial timeliness; a conversation with Harvey Mansfield.
interview by Donald A. Yerxa
July/August 2001

Minister to Freedom
The legacy of John Witherspoon.
by Joseph Loconte
July/August 2001

A Man for All Seasons?
Two portraits of Thomas More
The Last Medieval Man
by Daniel Taylor
May/June 2001
Confessions of a (Catholic) Fundamentalist
by David Lyle Jeffrey
May/June 2001

Englishing the Book
The rise and fall of the King James Bible.
by Mark Noll
May/June 2001

Killing Jesus All Over Again
How medieval stories about desecrating the Eucharist were used to justify the murder of Jews.
by Lauren F. Winner
May/June 2001

The Roots of Hitler's Evil
Since Hitler believed that nothing exists beyond nature, he tried to find his purpose in life in obeying the iron laws of nature.
by Richard Weikart
March/April 2001

God & Mammon, Inc.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Fogel discovers that religion builds character, makes us healthier, saves the marginalized, and improves society—whether or not its claims are true.
by James D. Bratt
March/April 2001

Turkey Undemonized
The Europeanness of Turkey.
by Douglas A. Howard
January/February 2001

A Fire You Can't Put Out
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr., we should also honor Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, King's contemporary and in many ways his opposite. A Web Exclusive.
by Tim Stafford
January 17, 2001

The Right to Vote
The controversy over the vote this November is nothing new, scholar Alexander Keyssar explains; the history of voting in the United States is much messier than we have been led to believe. A Web Exclusive.
interview by Donald Yerxa
November 15, 2000

Don't Ask the Founders
Faith and the founding of America.
by Harry S. Trout
November/December 2000

A Terribly Undemocratic Thought
The right to vote is precious. But what have Americans done with it?
by Tim Stafford
November/December 2000

First-Person Shooter
An Intimate History of Killing: Face-To-Face Killing In Twentieth-Century Warfare by Joanna Burke
The Soul of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson
by Donald A. Yerxa
September/October 2000

Protestants and Pictures
Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production by David Morgan
by Daniel A. Siedell
September/October 2000

What's So New about the New Western History?
"Well, maybe it's not so new any more. Sometime in the late 1980s, the "New Western History" became a widely circulated term of approbation or abuse, depending on the observer's perspective … "
by Lauren F. Winner
July/August 2000

Rival Visions of the Range
The boundless plains weren't big enough for everyone.
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush To Colorado by Elliott West
by James P. Ronda
July/August 2000

A Dialogue with the Land
In potato country, nature talks back.
Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape In the American West by Mark Fiege
by Elliott West
July/August 2000

The Last Frontier?
"If you see a moose, make sure you don't get between it and its calf." This postprandial advice was offered to me by my mother-in-law, who knows something about moose … "
by Preston Jones
July/August 2000

Rattlesnake Derbies and Pink Teas
Religion and community-building in the modern West.
by Ferenc Morton Szasz
July/August 2000

Agent Provocateur
Truth and Progress by Richard Rorty
by Matthew Halteman and Andrew Chignell
July/August 2000

Among the Theologians
Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
by Charles Marsh
July/August 2000

The Only Honest Man
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, impresario of modernity.
by Alan Jacobse
May/June 2000

Lincoln and Providence
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President by Allen C. Guelzo
by Richard Carwardine
May/June 2000

Abolitionists in Africa
Antislavery, evangelicalism, and the "American factor" in West Africa.
Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa by Lamin Smith
by Wiebe Boer and Stewart Davenport
May/June 2000

Gender Prohibition
From all-male saloons to cocktail lounges for everyone.
Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol In America, 1870-1940 by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
by Tim Stafford
May/June 2000

Failure and Hope
Church and state in South Africa.
Christianity In South Africa: A Political, Social, and Cultural History edited by Richard Elphick and Rodney Davenport
Challenging The State: Churches as Political Actors In South Africa, 1980-1994 by Tristan Anne Borer
by Mark R. Amstutz
March/April 2000

Self-Improvement
The surprising connection between American political theory and cognitive psychology.
Making The American Self: Jonathan Edwards To Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Walker Howe
by Allen C. Guelzo
March/April 2000

The Political Pulpits of Dixie
A tradition that goes back to the Confederacy.
by Harry S. Stout
March/April 2000

America's Holy War
Religion and The American Civil War edited by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Regan Wilson
A Consuming Fire by Eugene D. Genovese
by Richard Carwardine
March/April 2000

Flagitious Corruptions
Building Codes by Catharine Randall
Images and Relics by John Dillenberger
Seeing Beyond the Word edited by Paul Corby Finney
by John Wilson
March/April 2000

The Know-It-All State
How liberalism suppresses dissent.
The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation On Law, Religion, and Loyalty by Stephen Carter
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
January/February 2000

History Wars I
Some Recent Battles
by Mark Noll
May/June 1999

History Wars II
Intellectual Fallout
by Mark Noll
July/August 1999

History Wars III
Allies?
by Mark Noll
September/October 1999

History Wars IV
A Peace of God?
by Mark Noll
November/December 1999

California Haze
Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future by Peter Schrag
An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future by Robert D. Kaplan
Eyewitness To the American West edited by David Colbert
by Preston Jones
September/October 1999

The Atomic West
Reopening the American West edited by Hal K. Rothman
The Atomic West edited by Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay
by Charles Palmer
September/October 1999

Abolition's Hidden History
How black argument led to white commitment.
by Tim Stafford
September/October 1999

The Joe Louis of the Courtroom
Once devoted to a color-blind Constitution, Thurgood Marshall could not bring himself to let that principle benefit whites.
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams
A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism In America by Howard Ball
by Lucas E. Morel
July/August 1999

The History of History
Is it possible to write history that is free from philosophical and even theological assumptions?
by C. Stephen Evans
May/June 1999

Is Geography Destiny?
"'Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?' Jared Diamond begins his ambitious Guns, Germs, and Steel with this query from Yali, a New Guinean politician and acquaintance … "
by Donald A. Yerxa
May/June 1999

"If We Ever Needed the Lord Before"
"We live in a wonderful time for Christian academics, perhaps especially for Christian historians … "
by Jonathan Tucker Boyd
May/June 1999

Taking a Shot at Redemption
A Lutheran considers the Calvin College school of historiography.
by Douglas A. Sweeney
May/June 1999

The Women at the Concord Tombs
Everyone should have a favorite heretic.
by Richard J. Mouw
January/February 1999

An Uncertain Trumpet
How Christians in the South sought to reconcile slavery with Scripture.
by Eugene D. Genovese
January/February 1999

The New War
"'Tragically timely' is the only way to describe Bruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism … "
by Mark A. Noll
November/December 1998

Questioning "Progress"
The resurrection of Ned Ludd.
by Lionel Basney
September/October 1998

The Puzzle of John Brown
"Russell Banks's wonderfully crafted novel studies the personality of John Brown, the Harpers Ferry raider. Brown makes a good subject for a novelist because he is one of the most enigmatic personalities in American history … "
by Tim Stafford
September/October 1998

Cracks in the Liberty Bell
Special Section: Independence Day
by Mark Noll
July/August 1998

Stogie Historiography
Buy this book and a good cigar and savor them both in an overstuffed chair at the club or at your neighborhood cigar bar.
by Steven J. Keillor
July/August 1998

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