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History vs. Myth: The Truth About Memorial Day
Before Memorial Day became a national tradition, something remarkable took place in the ruins of the postwar South—so powerful that later generations…
 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
In the Name of God: How the Word Became the World
A series on how scripture became power.
 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
The Lords of the Land: Israel in Canaan
On the same ridge, two histories face one another: one rooted in scripture and return, the other in village memory and cultivated land.
 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
Ham’s Children: How Scripture Was Made to Serve Slavery—and How the Enslaved Read It Otherwise
The same Bible that was used to command obedience in the fields became, in whispered prayer meetings, a text of liberation.
 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
What God Hath Wrought: From Papal Bull to the Trail of Tears
Before the United States claimed a continent, it inherited an older idea: that discovery by a Christian power could turn inhabited land into empire.
 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
One Day in Haiti
The United States speaks in the language of democracy—elections, sovereignty, self-determination. But what happens when those elections produce leaders…
 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
“No One Wants to Fight for Israel”—So Why Does America Keep Doing It?
For generations one relationship has shaped American strategy in the Middle East—though the forces sustaining it are rarely discussed openly.
 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
400 Years
400 Years
Here are essays that blend biography and narrative nonfiction to recover the Black tradition of resistance too often left out of American textbooks.
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