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The Unraveling American Orthodoxy (1 articles)
This series attempts to examine the forces behind recent attempts to roll back advances in civil liberties for women and for minority groups. It argues that an American orthodoxy emerged in the Civil War period. Forged in crisis, the American orthodoxy held that the promises of the founding documents were not the domain of white men only. Over the following century, though unevenly at times, this orthodoxy held. In the 1970s, with the alliance of evangelical Christians and the Republican party, a steady resistance was mounted, which is seeing success in statehouses across the nation.
This series attempts to examine the forces behind recent attempts to roll back advances in civil liberties for women and for minority groups. It argues that an American orthodoxy emerged in the Civil War period. Forged in crisis, the American orthodoxy held that the promises of the founding documents were not the domain of white men only. Over the following century, though unevenly at times, this orthodoxy held. In the 1970s, with the alliance of evangelical Christians and the Republican party, a steady resistance was mounted, which is seeing success in statehouses across the nation.
