Charting the rise of the Evangelicals
Evangelicals used to be on the periphery of American life, but are now incredibly influential in Washington, on Wall Street, and in every corner of society. Sociologist D. Michael Lindsay of Rice University charts the religious group’s rise to power in his new book, Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to describe the research that went into his work.
Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving with only a handful of those are in the first-person. Two newly discovered accounts and the biographies of the men who wrote them join that exclusive group with the publication of the new book