American history Quote by Eugene Genovese

I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he pursues (which…

— Larry Hurtado

“You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?" As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?”

— Josh Lanyon

A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice

— Barack Obama

“In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.”

— Rachel Held Evans

“ Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed…

— Steven Weinberg

“Just listen to Frederick Douglass, a nineteenth-century slave who taught himself how to read and write, as he expresses his view of how Christian…

— Gregory A. Boyd

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

“Efforts to remove the Christian faith from subjects like American history distort the content of the subject. Just as wrong is the idea that…

— Ronald H. Nash

“Mr. Blatchford attacks Christianity because he is mad on one Christian virtue: the merely mystical and almost irrational virtue of charity. He has a…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations…

— Andrew Himes