Uncovers the marginalization of religious voices in early American print cultureThere was a diversity of religious communities in early America. Yet, when it...

Finalist, 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Award: Social JusticeLethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story.In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pin...

About The American Academy of Religion is pleased to announce the 2026 recipients of the Best First Book in Religious Studies; the Religion and the Arts Book Award; the Best Work in Textual or Histori...

The Palace of Thundering Gods is a freely accessible, open-source resource that tells the history of Religion in the United States. It has been created

[The cover image is a page from Jefferson’s “Farm Book” at the Massachusetts Historical Society where he listed enslaved recipients of “Bread” at Monticello in 1810 –including Sally Hemings and four o...

A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.

(RNS) — DNA testing has upended some families by finding living relatives we never knew we had. Two Latter-day Saint researchers want to study how people cope with such revelations.

After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year.

YouTube video by John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics

I will get to the reason for the toilet image, I promise. My summer was bracketed, unintentionally but perfectly, by two excellent memoirs: I started the summer with Kim Gordon’s Girl In a Band and w...

I will get to the reason for the toilet image, I promise. My summer was bracketed, unintentionally but perfectly, by two excellent memoirs: I started the summer with Kim Gordon’s Girl In a Band and w...

ALT: Struppl: Man with Long Hair and Mustache

SPIRIT HOUSE invests in and celebrates the richness and abundance of Black religions as they manifest through scholarly research, artistic expression, and community building.

SPIRIT HOUSE invests in and celebrates the richness and abundance of Black religions as they manifest through scholarly research, artistic expression, and community building.

Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. With Darkology, Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes meticulously unrav...

The Cougars walk-on turned legend will make his NFL preseason debut Friday just 20 miles away from where he grew up.

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

ALT: Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You