[crossposted at the THS blog] Randall Stephens As Americans prepare to stuff their faces with turkey, pie, turkey pie, and all manner of bread-related foods, and clock in millions of hours of TV football viewing, it’s worth considering the Pilgrims,...

Paul Harvey From the new edition of Choice, a short review of a book that should be of interest to some here, fyi. Karim, Jamillah. American Muslim women: negotiating race, class, and gender within the Ummah. New York University, 2009. 292p bibl...

Paul Harvey A brief follow up to Matt's post from a few days ago, which raised a vigorous discussion of conservative/fundamentalist religion, the chaplaincy, and the military. "Religion and Warfare: Does God Choose Sides," from the radio program "To...

by John G. Turner Sometimes we encounter books we wish we had been able to read ten years ago. I used to assign my introductory students an essay that required them to analyze the respective views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois on...

by Matt Sutton Cornel West said the following about Edward J. Blum’s W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet: "This book is a marvelous probing into the unknown and unexplored dimension of the great W. E. B. Du Bois's life and work: his self-styled...