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Monday, September 30, 2013

Michigan Filmmaker Pushes Christian Nation Nonsense

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That's the title to Ed Brayton's story here . A taste: I’d never heard of Joseph Zabrosky, who grew up in Brighton, Michigan and ...

Thomas Jefferson’s Quran: How Islam Shaped the Founders

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That's the title to a book review on The Daily Beast . This is the book . A taste from the review: Spellberg, associate professor of ...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

James Madison on UVA & Religion

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The way Jefferson's UVA dealt with religion was and is controversial. Here is James Madison to Frederick Beasley on the controversy, da...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Institute on the Constitution Misrepresents Study of Founding Era

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That's the title to Warren Throckmorton's post here . A taste: See the differences? Peroutka said Lutz and Hyneman studied the writ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Sandefur on Legislative Prayer

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Check it out here . A taste: The reason Jesus asked to be left out of such things, and why James Madison reiterated this when explaining ...
Monday, September 16, 2013

New Post From Rodda on HuffPo

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Check it out here . A taste: The Jefferson Lies  being pulled by Thomas Nelson did not make this book go away any more than it made Barto...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Politico on David Barton: What Will Evangelicals Do, Part Two

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That's the title to Warren Throckmorton's post here . A taste: Stephanie Simon told the tale. Although I have some skepticism abou...
Monday, September 09, 2013

Politico: David Barton’s Political Usefulness Trumps Scholarship For Evangelical Groups

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That's the title to Warren Throckmorton's story here . And here is the Politico article . A taste from Politico: Led by Warren Thr...
Sunday, September 08, 2013

Kraynak on The Founders' Moral Vision

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Watch the video below.
Saturday, September 07, 2013

Eric Nelson at Notre Dame

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Check out the video below.
Monday, September 02, 2013

Other Paradigms

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Perhaps I should add a little clarity to my last post where I wrote "I think [Dr. Gregg Frazer] provides a very useful analytic paradi...
Sunday, September 01, 2013

Fortenberry Keeps Pulling Me Back In On Frazer

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I've done a great deal of work discussing, analyzing and promoting Dr. Gregg Frazer's work on the American Founding over the past f...
Friday, August 30, 2013

More From Tillman on Stone

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Here is a link to the Corner that features Tillman's comment. A taste: Professor Geoffrey R. Stone—University of Chicago School of La...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Geoff Stone's Christian Nation Sequel

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We blogged about Prof. Stone's first Christian Nation article in extensive detail. I apparently missed the sequel entitled "The Se...

Dreisbach Reviews Frazer

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Daniel Dreisbach reviews Gregg Frazer's book in the Journal of American Studies. Read it here . A taste: Frazer's thesis is not ...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Rodda on Joel Barlow

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Joel Barlow is a figure from the American Founding I've much neglected. We have the "key Founders" -- the first four President...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Chris Rodda on the Michael Medved Show

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In the comments section at American Creation, Chris Rodda and Tom Van Dyke are involved in a spirited discussions about, among other things...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Anti-Trinitarianism and the Republican Tradition in Enlightenment Britain

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That's the title of an article by Matthew Kadane, Assistant Professor of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, featured in, Repu...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

A Preview of the Next Volume of “Debunking David Barton’s Jefferson Lies”

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By Chris Rodda here . A taste: BARTON’S LIE : It was Jefferson who introduced the measure in the Virginia legislature calling for a day o...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Robert Bellah, RIP

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See John Fea for the obit. Bellah was, in our time, the most noted scholar of the concept of "civil religion" in America. Here ...