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Charles Carroll and the Religious Republic
A new paperback edition of Brad Birzer’s American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll has recently been published by Regnery Gateway. It’s the best…
“Up All Night, Annas Gluts Himself”: Georg Fabricius, Hymns 1.7
Here is the seventh poem in Georg Fabricius’s hymn cycle. Here is a link to the sixth. The meter and rhyme-scheme is the same…
That Time the Church Asked a Pagan Emperor for Help
What are emperors good for, after all?
The Conservative Christian Alliance and the Liberal Revolutions of 1848
Timothy Mason Roberts’ Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism provides one of the best scholarly treatments of American intellectual, political, and…
Liberalism, the Apocalypse, and Europe’s Doom: John Watson Adams’ “The Crisis,” 1848
Millennial impulses among American Congregationalists and Presbyterians defined Calvinist religiosity throughout the Nineteenth Century. Early Republic divines in North America tended to embrace a…
