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Religion

“Muhammad’s Law” in Latin America: Outlining Historiographical Legacies of Early Modern Atlantic Islam

The Weight Around My Neck

From the Syllabus: Teaching the Practice of Early Modern Censorship in the Classroom

Remembering Carlos E. Castañeda: A Mexican Historian in Texas

Did Mark the Evangelist Write a Secret Gospel? Did Jesus Have a Relationship with a Young Man? A Fresh Investigation into the Secret Gospel of Mark

From Nurslings of God to Soldiers of Christ: Gender and Childhood in Cistercian Spiritual Formation

Early Modern and Colonial Histories of Globalization: An Interview with Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, and Rachel Sarah O’Toole (Part II)

Unboxing the Saints: A Curious Case from Early Modern Milan

Primary Source: English Martyrs on the Streets of Milan

The Catholic Church and the Dirty War: Documents from the Benson Latin American Collection

The Catholic Church and the Dirty War: Documents from the Benson Latin American Collection

Primary Source: Hares in the Margins of Judgment Day

A Family Fight on the Bosporus: The Ashkenazi Jews of the Ottoman Empire

Primary Source: An Elizabethan Exorcist's (very weird) Secret Press

Primary Source: An Elizabethan Exorcist’s (very weird) Secret Press

Fifty Years On: Remembering Gamal Abd al-Nasser

Monsoon Islam: An interview with Sebastian Prange

The Sword and The Shield: A Conversation with Peniel E. Joseph (Part II)

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

Old Orthodox Icons in Communist Bulgaria

Romero

The Defiant Heretic: The Scandal of Justa Mendez

Who Put Native American Sign Language in the US Mail?

The Gods of Indian Country

Did Race and Racism Exist in the Middle Ages?

Picture of barbed wire fencing and buildings from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp

On the “Polish Death Camps” Law

Black and white photograph of Mexican president, Plutarco Elias Calles standing with members of the Apostolic Mexican Catholic Church

A Texas Historian’s Perspective on Mexican State Anticlericalism

Giordano Bruno and the Spirit that Moves the Earth

American Zionism and Soviet Jews

Diasporic Charity and Salonica’s Jewish Community after the Fire of 1917

The Sword and the Camera: Becoming ISIS

Corpses, Canoes and Catastrophes: An 18th-Century Priest’s Resume

Notes from the Field: From Feasts to Feats (or Feet) on the Coals

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia

Notes from the Field: The Pope in Manila

Catholic Borderlands

Carved in Stone: What Architecture Can Tell Us about the Sectarian History of Islam

Book cover of Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders by Denise A. Spellberg

Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an

Passover 1934: An American Jewish Family Story

Indrani Chatterjee on Monasteries and Memory in Northeast India

Exploring the Silk Route

Brian Levack on Possession and Exorcism

Could a Muslim – or a Catholic or a Jew – Be President? A 1788 Constitutional Debate

Papal Resignation: What the News Media Left Out

Exorcism

Hannah Adams: Historian of American Jews

Was Einstein Really Religious?

A Medieval Nun, Writing

Zimbabwe’s Hanging Tree

Voices of India’s Partition, Part V

Voices of India’s Partition, Part V: Professor Mohammad Amin

Voices of India’s Partition, Part IV

Voices of India’s Partition, Part IV: Professor Masood ul Hasan

Voices of India’s Partition, Part III: Professor Irfan Habib

Voices of India’s Partition, Part III

Voices of India’s Partition, Part II: Mr. S.M. Mehdi

Voices of India’s Partition, Part II

Arab Autumn: Egypt Now

Re-Reading John Winthrop’s “City upon the Hill”

A Dangerous Idea

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra’s Puritan Conquistadors

Yoav di-Capua on Egyptians Writing History

“What Would Jesus Do?”

Normal Pictures in Abnormal Times

Toyin Falola on Africa and the United States

Voices of India’s Partition, Part I

Voices of India’s Partition, Part I: Mrs. Zahra Haider

A Medieval Vision

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