The Foreign Missionary Movement
Learn how American Christians extended their missionary efforts from home missions in the western and southern United States to foreign missions in Asia, Oceania, Africa, and South America.
Mormonism and the American Mainstream
Help your students see how the early history of Mormonism reflects the social conditions of mainstream America in the 1800s, and how the Mormons, like the Shakers and the Amish, set themselves up as a people apart from the mainstream.
African American Christianity, Pt. I: To the Civil War
Introduce your students to the multifaceted nature of African American religion in the 250 years between the arrival of Africans in North America and the emancipation of the slaves after the Civil War.
Roman Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America
The experience of Catholic newcomers provides a window on immigration in the nineteenth century. Millions arrived. Why did they come? Why did the country take them? How were they received?
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