It is difficult to stay sane knowing literal elementary facts about history when dealing with America’s modern know-nothing party. The right-wing is safely ensconced in their safe space for bigotry ...

My friend Andrew Stuttaford points to a piece at “Dispatches from the Culture Wars” that takes President Bush’s speech writers to task for misrepresenting Thomas Jefferson’s view of religion in a ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of Jesus ...

While serving as the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson embarked in 1805 on a secret, personal project that would occupy him for the next 15 years. He decided to edit the Christian ...

(The Conversation) — More than 2,000 letters between the two founders are available online. Many attest to their deep commitment to religious freedom. (The Conversation) — Few constitutional ...

Introduction : Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an : imagining the Muslim as citizen at the founding of the United States -- The European Christian origins of negative, incorrect, curious, but sometimes ...

What would happen if starting today church services were held at the U.S. Capitol? Probably an outcry from groups like the ACLU screaming “separation of church and state.” Well did you know that back ...

Three books on history to read this month. Walter Isaacson’s brief book The Greatest Sentence Ever Written marks America’s 250th birthday by considering the Declaration of Independence’s second ...

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