Religious Diversity

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The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible

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My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78

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Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History

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The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman

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The People and the Ballot: A History of American Party Politics

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The Re-Justification of God: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Romans 9:10-24

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Reading Romans with John Stott, Volume 2

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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft

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The Six Cs of Effective Storytelling

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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

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Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: Spanish Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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Summary: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen By David Brooks: Key Takeaways, Summary and Analysis

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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

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Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

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The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

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Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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How to Write a Book This Weekend, Even If You Flunked English Like I Did

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The Secrets of Successful Public Speakers: How to Improve Confidence and Credibility in Your Communication

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On Writing Well Audio Collection

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Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic

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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image

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Learn French with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: French Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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Summary: Quiet by Susan Cain

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Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer (A 6-Week Artist's Way Program)

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The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

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Win Your Case: How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time

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Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style

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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

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Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

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Stephanie McCurry: Did the Real War Ever Get in the Books?

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Did It Happen Here? (with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins)

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How Should Protestants Engage With Natural Law Theory?: A Conversation on the Work of Robert P. George with Andrew T. Walker

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Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, "Minds Wide Shut How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us" (Princeton UP, 2021)

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Robert Kagan Looks to American History to Explain Foreign Policy Today

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Charles C. Camosy, "Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality" (New City Press, 2021): An interview with Charles C. Camosy

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Why is the Immigration System Broken? Jonathan Blitzer on How American Foreign Policy in Central America Created a Crisis

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Lecture 24 - Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption": This lecture opens with a discussion of the myriad moments at which historians have declared an "end" to Reconstruction, before shifting to the myth and reality of "Carpetbag rule" in the Reconstruction South. Popularized by Lost Cause apologists and biased historians, this myth suggests that the southern governments of the Reconstruction era were dominated by unscrupulous and criminal Yankees who relied on the ignorant black vote to rob and despoil the innocent South. The reality, of course, diverges widely from this image. Among other accomplishments, the Radical state governments that came into existence after 1868 made important gains in African-American rights and public education. Professor Blight closes the lecture with the passage of the 15th Amendment, the waning radicalism of the Republican party after 1870, and the rise of white political terrorism across the South. Transcript Lecture

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Episode 422: The Church’s Complicity in Racism with Jemar Tisby: At numerous points throughout American history, Christians had a choice to confront the evils of racism or quietly ignore them. In a challenging conversation Jemar Tisby, author of “The Color of Compromise” and host of the “Pass the Mic”...

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Who Wrote the Bible? Sorting out the History of the Bible We Have.: A Discussion with Matthew Thomas

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Gary W. Gallagher: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

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Christopher Nichols and David Milne, "Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories" (Columbia UP, 2022): An interview with Christopher Nichols and David Milne

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What is Christian Nationalism, and what is it not? With Philip S. Gorski, author of "The Flag and the Cross"

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Lecture 15 - Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy: Professor Blight follows Robert E. Lee's army north into Maryland during the summer of 1862, an invasion that culminated in the Battle of Antietam, fought in September of 1862. In the wake of Antietam, Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, a document that changed the meaning of the war forever. Professor Blight suggests some of the ways in which Americans have attempted to come to grips with the enigmatic Lincoln, and argues that, in the end, it may be Lincoln's capacity for change that was his most important characteristic. The lecture concludes with the story of John Washington, a Virginia slave whose concerted action suggests the central role American slaves played in securing their own freedom. Transcript Lecture Page

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Kerry Pimblott, “Faith in Black Power: Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois” (U. Press of Kentucky, 2016): When you think of black power, do you think about churches and religious institutions, or do you relate them more to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s? How do the social justice struggles of the past relate to those of today?

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January 6, White Christian Nationalism, and How We Got Here, with Bradley Onishi

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The Cold War - Last Man Standing | 7

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Atheist Says to Stop Debating: A writer for American Atheists says they should refuse to debate Theists.

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Lecture 19 - To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings: Professor Blight uses Herman Melville's poem "On the Slain Collegians" to introduce the horrifying slaughter of 1864. The architect of the strategy that would eventually lead to Union victory, but at a staggering human cost, was Ulysses S. Grant, brought East to assume control of all Union armies in 1864. Professor Blight narrates the campaigns of 1864, including the Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg. While Robert E. Lee battled Grant to a stalemate in Virginia, however, William Tecumseh Sherman's Union forces took Atlanta before beginning their March to the Sea, destroying Confederate morale and fighting power from the inside. Professor Blight closes his lecture with a description of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by African Americans in Charleston, SC 1865. Transcript Lecture Page

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"Our Kids" author Robert D. Putnam: A professor of public policy at Harvard, Robert D. Putnam has consulted for the last three American presidents and many other leaders around the globe. His newest book, "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis" is a groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap and explores why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. He has written fourteen books and been translated into more than twenty languages. His books "Bowling Alone" and "Making Democracy Work", are among the most cited publications in the social sciences in the last half century. This conversation between Putnam and Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, was recorded live at the Institute's Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series.

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Michael Joseph Roberto, "The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940" (Monthly Review Press, 2018): An interview with Michael Joseph Roberto

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Episode 412: This is Your Brain on God with Dr. Jim Wilder: Some people spend years learning theology and studying the Bible, but experience little or no transformation in their lives. What have we gotten wrong? Dr. Jim Wilder is a neurotheologian—that means he studies theology and brain science—who says...

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Lecture 18 - "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad: This lecture probes the reasons for confederate defeat and union victory. Professor Blight begins with an elucidation of the loss-of-will thesis, which suggests that it was a lack of conviction on the home front that assured confederate defeat, before offering another of other popular explanations for northern victory: industrial capacity, political leadership, military leadership, international diplomacy, a pre-existing political culture, and emancipation. Blight warns, however, that we cannot forget the battlefield, and, to this end, concludes his lecture with a discussion of the decisive Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July of 1863. Transcript Lecture Page

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Lecture 6 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850: In this lecture, Professor Blight discusses some of the conflicts, controversies, and compromises that led up to the Civil War. After analyzing Frederick Douglass's 1852 Fourth of July speech and the inherent conflict between American slavery and American freedom, the lecture moves into a lengthy discussion of the war with Mexico in the 1840s. Professor Blight explains why northerners and southerners made "such a fuss" over the issue of slavery's expansion into the western territories. The lecture ends with the crisis over California's admission to statehood and the Compromise of 1850. Transcript Lecture Page

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Episode 122: Lessons from FDR's Court: About the law, who it serves, and who it doesn’t.

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Jeff Sharlet - The Family: Jeff Sharlet is a contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone, and a visiting research scholar at New York University's Center for Religion and Media, where he has taught journalism and religious studies. He is the coauther, with Peter Manseau,...

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One Faith No Longer (with George Yancey)

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The Cleaving of Christendom - Part One

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Susan Jacoby - The History of American Secularism: Susan Jacoby is the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, now in its tenth hardcover printing and recently published in paperback. Freethinkers was hailed in the New York Times as an "ardent and insightful work" that "seeks to...

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160 | Peter Bergen: What the Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden Means for the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy: In the last episode of The Realignment’s post 9/11 era foreign policy series, Peter Bergen, author of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden and Vice President at New America, joins to discuss how Osama bin Laden’s worldview, actions, and strategies defined the post-Cold War world and how he was ultimately undone by his inability to understand how the U.S. would react to 9/11, for good for ill.