Nicholas T. Pruitt

Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast Education Podcast · Monthly · Where big ideas in history meet open conversation. Each episode invites listeners into the Seminar experience, where, every Monday afternoon during term, visiting scholar...

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Thought of your work yesterday while attending a talk by @kathleenbelew.bsky.social on 1990s Christian nationalism in Colorado.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Utopia, Dystopia, Myopia
2. Myth, Morality, Rings (Lord of the Rings)
3. American Political Thought
4. Victorian Literature
5. Age of Reason and Revolution

Media outlets are claiming that Greenland would be the largest ever US territorial acquisition as a way to pique interest.

Problem is the original Louisiana Purchase was over 900k sq. mi. Greenland is 836k.

Check out this *free* resource on the ARDA that provides demographic, social, and religious information about communities across the United States!

New book from IEHS member, David-James Gonzales:
Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, California (Oxford University Press, 2025).

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I couldn't be more thrilled with the cover art for my forthcoming book with @uncpress.bsky.social. Lindsay Starr and the rest of the art production team knocked it out of the park. Thank you to everyone involved.

It's starting to look like a book.

Check out these fantastic teaching resources for #AmRel and #AfricanaReligions. SPIRIT HOUSE has storymaps, music, comics, documentaries, experimental films, oral histories, and more related the Black religious histories, communities, and cultures.

Not all heroes wear capes

Lutheranism and American Culture Timothy D. Grundmeier’s Lutheranism and American Culture examines the transformation of the nation’s third-largest Protestant denomination over the cour...

For those interested in religion, culture, and politics in 19c U.S. history, can’t recommend this enough.
Great work by a great friend from grad school. lsupress.org/978080718593...

Sounds like a Nic Cage operation.

Incredible that this was written over 70yrs ago: “School is shortened,…philosophies, histories, languages dropped…. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts.” Fahrenheit 451

But August 1940 also suggests a more international context with the onset of WWII and increasing US support for the Allies through industrial production.

Possibly an interpretation of economic or industrial democracy. Wendy Wall’s work might help: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Central task in my 20c US history course is featuring the contested definition and application of democracy.

The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775 Drawing together history and recent historiography, this volume offers a reference work for understanding how religion influenced politics and how politics shaped religion in the United States from th...

It's time for @laurenfturek.bsky.social & I to celebrate the book birthday for The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775!

44 chapters, 48 contributors representing both History & Religious Studies

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It was a whirlwind week finishing out the term, but a highlight was presenting my research to the Brooke Society @caiuscollege.bsky.social. Got to share my work on historiographies of Christian nationalism during the 1950s.

Going to add this to my collection. I enjoy using Herblock’s several works on McCarythism with students.

My end-of-the-term solution…

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Material religious history finds today at an antiques store in Ely:

Happy to do any and all gardening needed!

Dwight Khrushchev?

May have found the cover for my next book..."Nothing's Sacred" (1953)

While going through security at Logan for an early morning flight, I turned around to see Nick Offerman behind me.

Or the Baptist “Brother (first name)”

Definitely feel this way when it comes to the discipline of history, but not as much when it comes to politics. I don’t understand those who tell athletes who’ve made a political statement to stick to sports.

Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire. By Gale L. Kenny The history of Protestant missionaries is a robust field. When it comes to missionaries from the United States, however, most historical attention is direc

Pleased to share my review of @galekenny.bsky.social’s latest book. If you study 20c gender, culture, religion, and/or Protestant missions, definitely give it a read. @nyupress.bsky.social

Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire. By Gale L. Kenny The history of Protestant missionaries is a robust field. When it comes to missionaries from the United States, however, most historical attention is direc

Pleased to share my review of @galekenny.bsky.social’s latest book. If you study 20c gender, culture, religion, and/or Protestant missions, definitely give it a read. @nyupress.bsky.social

Congrats, it’s a great press to work with. And eager to read it!