The newsletter explores the history of the Burned-Over District, the upstate New York region that was a center of revivalism during the Second Great Awakening. Its issues cover topics such as the role of canal-era print culture, self-made prophets, moral reform movements, and the social effects of evangelical revivals.
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Essays on 19th-century German Lutheran history in America, drawing on primary sources such as Der Lutheraner and Lehre und Wehre. Each issue closely reads a single archival page or column and places it in its historical context, with an audio version available.
A historian at the Church History Library writes detailed historical essays on early Latter-day Saint history and early Christian texts. Issues cover a biography in progress on Fanny Alger, a reconstruction of the Carthage Jail attack, and the possible letter of Jesus to Abgar.
A blog-style newsletter offering historical and religious-studies articles reinterpreting the Bible in its ancient context, covering topics such as Ugarit's literature, iconoclasm and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple. Readers get accessible background on how biblical-era events and beliefs were shaped by their historical setting.
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