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Introduction: Why religion matters in teaching US history
Part one: Frameworks for teaching religion in American history. Teaching American religious history academically
Adding religion to themes you already teach: religion as a component of diversity in America
Talking about religion and race in the classroom
African American religious experiences and narratives of American history
Religion in women's history
Native American religious experiences and cross-cultural engagement
Teaching American Islam in the American history classroom
Asian religious influences in American life
Teaching American Judaism
Part two: Teaching religion in American history in specific periods. Early Puritan colonies
Teaching the First Great Awakening
Was America founded as a Christian nation?
Framing the constitutional principles governing religion in the early republic
Religion and westward expansion
The Bible and slavery before the Civil War
What connections were there between imperialism and missionary activity?
How did Christians respond to the industrial crisis of the Gilded Age?
The prosperity gospel in US history and culture
The effects of the fundamentalist modernist split
How did the Depression change the relationship between church and state?
Religion during World War II and the Cold War
Religion and the civil rights movement.
Part one: Frameworks for teaching religion in American history. Teaching American religious history academically
Adding religion to themes you already teach: religion as a component of diversity in America
Talking about religion and race in the classroom
African American religious experiences and narratives of American history
Religion in women's history
Native American religious experiences and cross-cultural engagement
Teaching American Islam in the American history classroom
Asian religious influences in American life
Teaching American Judaism
Part two: Teaching religion in American history in specific periods. Early Puritan colonies
Teaching the First Great Awakening
Was America founded as a Christian nation?
Framing the constitutional principles governing religion in the early republic
Religion and westward expansion
The Bible and slavery before the Civil War
What connections were there between imperialism and missionary activity?
How did Christians respond to the industrial crisis of the Gilded Age?
The prosperity gospel in US history and culture
The effects of the fundamentalist modernist split
How did the Depression change the relationship between church and state?
Religion during World War II and the Cold War
Religion and the civil rights movement.