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The Early Mormons and the Second Great Awakening
Before the Civil War, the United States experienced an explosion of religious experimentation unlike anything in its previous history. The same forces that fueled...
The Theology of Dispensationalism and Origins in the Second Great Awakening
Christian dispensationalism is one of the most influential theological systems to emerge from the modern evangelical world. For millions of Christians, it provides the...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – Industry and Revelation
The early nineteenth century was a turning point in the American story—a moment when the nation’s identity, economy, and spiritual life were all being...
The Beecher Family, Second Great Awakening, and Social Reform
The Beecher family became one of the most influential families in nineteenth-century America, standing at the crossroads of revival religion, education, abolitionism, women’s rights,...
The Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was one of the most influential religious movements in American history. Sweeping across the United States between roughly 1790 and...
The Trail of Tears
The story of the Trail of Tears is one of the most tragic chapters in American history. It was not simply the forced movement...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – Manifest Destiny
America’s westward surge in the first half of the nineteenth century wasn’t just a geographic story—it was the moment the young republic transformed its...
Daniel Boone: The Frontiersman Who Opened the American West
Few Americans have become as legendary as Daniel Boone. In popular imagination, Boone was the fearless woodsman wearing buckskin, carrying a long rifle, and...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – The Myths Take Hold
Episode 20 of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story traces the moment when the young United States stepped out of its revolutionary shadow...
Tecumseh and The Prophet
Few Native American leaders have inspired as much admiration as Tecumseh and his younger brother, Tenskwatawa, better known as the Prophet. Together, they led...