Religion and Social Movements
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11.5K1Seven Fun Facts About Frederick Douglass
He rose from slavery in the South to international prominence as a writer, orator and anti-slavery activist. Frederick Douglass didn’t spend a...
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12.3K1The Vermont Eugenics Survey Purifies the Population’s Polluted Protoplasm
The Vermont eugenics survey began with the rural exodus of Vermont farmers and didn’t end until well after Hitler used its ‘philosophy’...
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7.5K1How John Adams Became A “Church going Animal”
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
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9.4K2When Massachusetts Was a Paradise for Tramps
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...
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7.9K1The Great Puritan Periwig Controversy
Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall were close and lifelong friends. They moved in the same Boston social circles, shared companions, dined together and...
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12.1K4Dwight L. Moody, Yankee Preacher, Meets Abe Lincoln in Little Hell
In 1860, a poor Yankee preacher named Dwight L. Moody met the Illinois rail-splitter, Abraham Lincoln, in a Chicago slum. Moody was...
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