![]() ![]() But when I dug into the archives on those topics, I was struck by how often ordinary Americans and political leaders alike invoked such phrases as “one nation under God” and “in God we trust” in making their arguments. My original plan was to study the grassroots origins of the Religious Right as local communities of religious conservatives across the country mobilized on such matters as school prayer and sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s. ![]() In truth, I didn’t set out to research this subject I stumbled into it. Why do you believe this subject needed to be researched and published? Your latest book is titled One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. His newest work is One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (2015), a study of the rise of American religious nationalism in the mid-twentieth century. He is the author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005), as well as coeditor of three collections: The New Suburban History (2006), with Thomas Sugrue Spaces of the Modern City (2008), with Gyan Prakash and Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement (2012), with Stephen Tuck. ![]() ![]() He specializes in the political, social, and urban/suburban history of twentieth-century America, with a particular interest in conflicts over race, rights and religion, and the making of modern conservatism. Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton University. One Nation Under God? Tom Dombrowski March/April 2017 ![]()
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