History is Powerful: Why the Christian Right Distorts History and Why it Matters
I take the view that it is important that we have a sufficient understanding of our own history, and an ability to articulate it (and its not as hard as it sounds, once you have a well-framed narrative -- four suggested books in the article) so that we can recapture the narrative of American history from the Christian nationalists whose views are seeping into public life and play a surprising role in electoral politics.
I address these points in the excerpts below, but there is much more in the whole article.
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This is the Time
But I have opened here with a disgression. This post is not about the religious right. It is about us.
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The Religious Right's Strange International Antiabortion Alliance
Pam Chamberlain of Political Research Associates has an excellent overview in the