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The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil

By Andrew Delbanco (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1990–91; 2002–03) In a spiritual biography of America, Delbanco shows how writers of the past 3 centuries have depicted evil and how they have tried to defy and subdue it. He shows the strategies by which writers such as Cotton Mather, Jefferson and Lincoln, Emerson and Melville, Thoreau and … Continued

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Speak of the Devil: Teaching Histories of the Supernatural

Few subjects are more fascinating than the supernatural. Popular culture is suffused with images of demons, witches, werewolves, ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night. These figures have long, complicated histories that are deeply intertwined with issues of religion, gender, politics, art, and more. But how do we approach something as elusive … Continued