Tag: American History

Race, Religion, and Republic in Herman Melville’s “Redburn”

Miles Smith — October 28, 2024

Race, Religion, and Republic in Herman Melville’s “Redburn”

Herman Melville published his autobiographical novel Redburn in 1849. The work proved to be one of his best, and in many ways remains his most quintessentially American novel. Redburn lacks…

The Christian Right (and Wrong)

Adam M. Carrington — November 6, 2020

The Christian Right (and Wrong)

"Protestants and American Conservatism" provides useful history, but a more charitable and accurate assessment is needed to develop a contemporary Protestant political theology

James Wilson and the Common Sense Theory of the Common Law

Ethan Foster — April 18, 2019

James Wilson and the Common Sense Theory of the Common Law

When Thomas Paine published Common Sense in 1776, his was not the only commonly held sense of the term “common sense.” Ironically, the term was already complicated at the American founding.