Historian

January 14, 2023

Historian Connects Shirley Chisholm’s Life and Politics in New Biography

Shirley Chisholm was a trailblazer, but despite her influence on U.S. politics, biographies of Chisholm have been hard to come across. The post Historian Connects Shirley […]
July 30, 2022

Christianity Was a Major Part of Indigenous Boarding Schools — a Historian Whose Family Survived Them Explains

Religion was a pillar of the forceful campaigns to assimilate Indigenous peoples on both sides of the border but played out differently in the U.S. and […]
November 30, 2018

Interview: Historian Peter Slade Weighs in on Machen, Christianity, and Race

In a previous article, I revisited Princeton Theological Seminary’s archives and discovered that J. Gresham Machen’s objection to the integration of people of color in the […]