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Eric Miller teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Evangelical Narratives / Exvangelical Memoirs

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Eric

The success of evangelical youth culture in the 1990s has yielded a soul-searching generation of disillusioned exvangelicals in the first decades of the 21st century. Some of these have written books about their experience, and this paper examines the ways … Continue reading →

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Current

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Eric
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Started on the Margin Now We’re Here

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Eric

Matthew Dallek is Professor of Political Management at George Washington University. In his most recent book, he identifies the John Birch Society as the vanguard of an insurgent right-wing extremism in American politics. Known for their early embrace of conspiracy … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia for a Tragic Past

Posted on February 2, 2025 by Eric

Steven Hahn is Professor of History at New York University. His previous books, The Roots of Southern Populism, A Nation Under Our Feet, and A Nation Without Borders, have won many prestigious awards. In his latest, Hahn shows how American … Continue reading →

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The Sexual Revelation

Posted on August 25, 2024 by Eric

Benjamin E. Park is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. His books, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier and American Zion, provide a comprehensive view of Mormonism from … Continue reading →

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Recommended Reading – An Emersonian Summer

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Eric

Perhaps the foremost philosophical and literary figure in all of American history, Ralph Waldo Emerson is a challenging and sometimes mystifying writer. The books on this list are arranged in hope of making his life and work more accessible, and … Continue reading →

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A Recession of Charisma

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Eric

David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions at Princeton University. His book, Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution, documents the political influence of military … Continue reading →

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Current

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Eric
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Recommended Reading – Regarding Henry Thoreau

Posted on April 2, 2024 by Eric

A somewhat controversial figure in his own day, Henry David Thoreau rose to his greatest prominence posthumously, in the late nineteenth century, with the publication of his expansive journals. In our day, he remains ranked among the nation’s most interesting … Continue reading →

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Current

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Eric

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

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Conservatives or Radicals or Something Else Entirely

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Eric

Nicole Hemmer is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She and I discussed her first book back in 2016. Her second book, Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s, resituates the Republican Party’s sharp rightward … Continue reading →

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Church, Commerce, Creation – A Conversation with Mark Stoll

Posted on January 19, 2024 by Eric

Mark Stoll is Professor of History at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America; Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism; and Profit: An Environmental History. Each book explores … Continue reading →

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Mentor / Mentees

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Eric

On the occasion of a well-deserved retirement. With Stephen H. Browne, Professor Emeritus.

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Recommended Reading – Growth & Degrowth

Posted on December 14, 2023 by Eric

Over the course of 2023 my interest in climate advocacy has carried me deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of climate change causes, which turn out to be the same forces driving a whole host of other ecological problems, … Continue reading →

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The Year in Reading, 2023 – Abolitionism & Transcendentalism

Posted on December 6, 2023 by Eric

In 2023 I read a bunch of books on slavery, Abolitionism, Transcendentalism, the major figures and currents of each, and the ties that bound them to one another. The reading list is included here, along with some reflections on the … Continue reading →

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