In this episode we talk with Wesleyan University historian Joseph Slaughter, author of Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in Early America. He offers a new account of the interplay between religion and capitalism in early American history by focusing on 19th-century Protestant entrepreneurs and how they infused faith into their business and, in turn, how those businesses shaped our capitalist economy today.
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Episode 84: "How 'Biblical Womanhood' Became Gospel Truth'"
Episode 83: Celebrity in the Early American Republic
Episode 82: The Fastest Game in the World
Episode 81: God's Law and Order
Episode 80: How Alternative Media Broke Our Democracy
Episode 79: John Foster Dulles and the Cold War Protestant Left
Episode 78: "How a 1630 Sermon Shaped American Exceptionalism"
Episode 77: The Art of Living
Episode 76: Howard Thurman: Theologian, Mystic, Activist
Episode 75: The Jefferson Bible
Episode 74: An Independent Woman in Revolutionary America
Episode 73: Cowboy Evangelicalism
Episode 72: Andrew Jackson, Donald Trump, and the Upending of SHEAR
Episode 71: Writing History for Young Readers
Episode 70: Systemic Racism
Episode 69: Be Like Mike?
Episode 68: The History of the Presidential Cabinet
Episode 67: Exploring the History of Childhood and Play Through 50 Historic Treasures
Episode 66: The Boston Massacre
Episode 65: "What Would Lasch Say?"
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