Jonathan Den Hartog

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Dr. Jonathan Den Hartog is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation. He enjoys teaching American history as a means of reflecting on the permanent things.

Recent Essays

Flying Solo: A Spiritual-But-Not-Religious Biography of an American Icon

Jonathan Den Hartog - October 18, 2021

Gehrz traces the life of a fascinating individual, but in the process he raises important moral questions about which story of transcendence we seek to pursue.

The Most Polarized Era Ever?

Jonathan Den Hartog - May 17, 2019

In selecting reading material, the average reader might not immediately reach for a book about Congress in the nineteenth century. That would be a...