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“The Frown of All Christendom”: Conservative Protestants Against the Mexican War, 1846-48
When the Mexican War began in 1846, American Protestants split over whether the war was justified or not. Northern Protestants denounced the war as…
A Prayer from Melanchthon
A prayer found in Philip Melanchthon's oration on Basil of Caesarea.
Dylan’s “False Prophet” and Wilder’s Alcestiad: A Supposal
Does Bob Dylan read Thornton Wilder?
Southern Jacobins?: A Historical Fugue
Exposition Southerners are often thought of–and often thought of themselves–as having been the conservatives in the American sectional conflict, desiring to preserve traditional modes…
The First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as History
On Euripides's Medea and the Fugitive Slave Law.
