Laurie Maffly-Kipp is one of the foremost scholars of American religious history, so it was a big win for the field of Mormon studies that she’s spent so much of her energy, especially in the last decade, dealing with the LDS past. Besides producing the Penguin Classics edition of the Book of Mormon, along with…
Month: April 2017
Amici Curiae Brief Against Trump’s Immigration Order
I am pasting below the news release for an amici curiae brief that I was honored to be part of. You can find the brief, and more information, here. _________________________________ A group of 19 scholars of Mormon history have filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit attacking President Trump’s…
Review: Spencer McBride, PULPIT & NATION
If the mark of a good book is it provides lots of intriguing material, fascinating characters, and much to debate, then Spencer McBride’s Pulpit & Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America (University of Virginia Press, 2017) is a good book. In an age where the traditional trajectories of religion and politics seem in transition,…
Trump’s Ethnic Nationalism, at STARTING POINTS
Today I had an article that traces the intellectual(?) genealogy of Trump’s ethnic nationalism throughout American history. It appeared in Starting Points, an excellent new online journal sponsored by the University of Missouri’s Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. This was especially thrilling because I spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with the institute. Here is…
Hark, a Publication!: Benjamin Rush, Noah Webster, and Nationalism in EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES
In March 2014, I had the great honor to participate in a conference focused on Benjamin Rush and sponsored by the McNeil Center on Early American Studies. The conference took place in Dickinson College, an institution originally founded by Rush himself that is located in an idyllic setting of western Pennsylvania. The timing was not…
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