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Miles Smith

Dr. Miles Smith IV is a historian of the American South and native Carolinian. Follow him on Twitter @ivmiles.

By Miles Smith

John Quincy Adams: Christian Nationalist?

October 26th, 2022|3 min read

By Miles Smith

A Puritan Founding?

September 6th, 2022|7 min read

By Miles Smith

The Uselessness of “Christian Nationalism”

July 18th, 2022|3 min read

By Miles Smith

The Danger of Forgetting America’s Anti-Racist History

June 9th, 2022|4 min read

By Miles Smith

Who’s Afraid of John Calvin? Answer: Thomas Jefferson

November 18th, 2019|8 min read

By Miles Smith

Liberalism’s Tax on the Unborn

February 5th, 2019|8 min read

By Miles Smith

Evangelical Indifference to the Immigrant in Historical Perspective

May 29th, 2018|10 min read

By Miles Smith

Reviewing Archbishop Charles Chaput's "Strangers in a Strange Land"

March 23rd, 2017|4 min read

By Miles Smith

Reviewing Nancy Isenberg’s “White Trash”

August 8th, 2016|9 min read

By Miles Smith

Reviewing John Wilsey’s “American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion”

January 7th, 2016|7 min read