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The religious world of Abraham Lincoln

The religious world of Abraham Lincoln

byThomas S. Bremer

Religion in the early history of Springfield, Illinois, through the period of Abraham Lincoln’s residency there, which had a formative impact on Lincoln’s own religious faith.

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Black Robes and the Book of Heaven

Black Robes and the Book of Heaven

byThomas S. Bremer

A Nez Perce delegation arrived in St. Louis in 1831, but Protestants and Catholics tell very different stories about them.

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Lessons in whiteness

Lessons in whiteness

byThomas S. Bremer

Even well-meaning opinions by voices presuming to be immune from the racist elements of their whiteness cannot avoid the histories embedded in their language, attitudes, and perspectives.

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A Civilized Savagery: Rev. Stanley’s ruminations on his way to Yellowstone

A Civilized Savagery: Rev. Stanley’s ruminations on his way to Yellowstone

byThomas S. Bremer

Rev. Edwin J. Stanley’s 1873 tour of Yellowstone made him a witness to “the scepter of the irrepressible white man” in the divine right of Manifest Destiny.

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Evolution of the National Park Idea

Evolution of the National Park Idea

byThomas S. Bremer

Tracing the historical origins of the national park idea can be frustrating. In truth, no single individual can take credit for the idea of national parks.

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Montana Masons in the civilizing of Yellowstone

Montana Masons in the civilizing of Yellowstone

byThomas S. Bremer

Montana’s leading citizens sought to civilize Yellowstone by claiming it as a park, not a wild and dangerous land but a place of democratic enjoyment and wonder for generations to come.

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Columbusing Yellowstone

Columbusing Yellowstone

byThomas S. Bremer

Nathaniel P. Langford and other members of the 1870 Washburn-Doane expedition “Columbused” Yellowstone by “discovering” it as a “park.”

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Devil’s Slide or Angel’s Ascent?

Devil’s Slide or Angel’s Ascent?

byThomas S. Bremer

Devil’s Slide north of Yellowstone National Park has unsettled the religious imaginations of visitors since the nineteenth century.

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Warren Angus Ferris, Yellowstone’s first tourist

Warren Angus Ferris, Yellowstone’s first tourist

byThomas S. Bremer

Warren Angus Ferris visited Yellowstone in 1834 as the first tourist to experience the thermal features, and the first person known to use the Icelandic word “geyser” to describe them.

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The ambivalent legacy of Horace Albright

The ambivalent legacy of Horace Albright

byThomas S. Bremer

Horace Albright’s legacy enjoys high esteem, but many of the precedents he set for the National Park Service have contributed to problems that parks now face.

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The Calvinist roots of appreciating Acadia’s scenery

The Calvinist roots of appreciating Acadia’s scenery

byThomas S. Bremer

Visitors who delight in nature and stunning scenery at places like Acadia National Park often do not realize their aesthetic debt to Protestant reformer and theologian John Calvin.

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Thoughts on visiting the grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest

Thoughts on visiting the grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest

byThomas S. Bremer

Contemplating the legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest at his grave beneath the remains of a Confederate monument in a Memphis park.

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