Sightings Articles
Women and American Religion — Catherine A. Brekus
What difference does it make to include women's stories in our narratives of American religious history? This is the question that more than 40 historians will consider at an upcoming conference on Women and American Religion: Reimagining the Past...
October 2, 2003
Christian History
Whatever happened to Christian history? This is the title of a recent article by Tim Stafford in Christianity Today. Intrigued by the increasing visibility of evangelical scholars in leading history departments, Stafford decided to interview ...
July 11, 2001
America's Mythical Religious Past
On the first day of the course I teach on "Religion in Colonial America" at the University of Chicago Divinity School, I often ask students to tell me what they already know about early American religious history. Since many of them are new to the fi...