<p><span class="deck"> Shocking, exuberant, exalted, the camp meeting answered the pioneers' demand for religion and helped shape the character of the West.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Anthony Comstock spent a lifetime on a crusade to clean the nation’ Augean stables of smut, vice, and nudity. Sometimes it seems as if he pried in vain</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The mysterious diseases that nearly wiped out the Indians of New England were the work of the Christian God — or so both Pilgrims and Indians believed.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Maligned and misunderstood throughout much of their history, the Penitentes of the American Southwest have nevertheless given their people a sense of community and spiritual security. But for how much longer?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> In founding Groton, Endicott Peabody was sure that muscular Christianity would protect<br />
boys from the perils of loaferism</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> To mark the birthdays of our two great Presidents, a new look at the legends that surround their memory …<br />
An admiring re-appraisal of the Cherry Tree Fable and its author, by <span class="typestyle"> Garry Wills</span> , together with the<br />
Curious Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Love Letters, by <span class="typestyle"> Don E. Fehrenbacher</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> He could build castles at his whim, but the ancient home of a small band of monks defeated him</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In the shadow of Bunker Hill, bigots perpetrated an atrocity that showed a shocked nation that the fires of the Reformation still burned in the New World</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> No city has more energetically obliterated the remnants of its past. And yet no city has a greater sense of its history.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">He was a capitalist. He was an urban reformer. He was a country boy. He was “Comrade Jesus,” a hardworking socialist. He was the world’s first ad man. For a century and a half, novelists have been trying to recapture the “real” Jesus.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A chance meeting in a raucous hotel lobby nearly one hundred years ago led two drummers to make a spiritual mark on hostelries worldwide</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">The foremost student of a belief held by nearly half of all Americans traces its history from Darwin’s bombshell through the storms of the Scopes trial to today’s “scientific creationists," who find William Jennings Bryan to have been too liberal.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> To early Americans the Old Testament and its scenes, even its speech and names, were as familiar as their own backyard</span> </p>
