Obbie Tyler ToddApr 34 minAbraham Lincoln's Last-Minute Pardon of a Soldier Sentenced to DieOn a foggy Monday morning, September 9, 1861, a trembling young soldier in the Union Army awaited his execution by firing squad. Private...
Obbie Tyler ToddDec 14, 20236 minThe Softer Side of 19th Century Conservative Presbyterianism Like the Reformers themselves, American Protestants in the 19th century could sometimes reserve their harshest critiques and longest...
Obbie Tyler ToddDec 11, 20234 minWhen a Puritan married an Episcopalian...The wedding between Rev. Lyman Beecher and Roxana Foote in 1799 in New Haven, Connecticut was proof that opposites attract. Lyman, the...
Obbie Tyler ToddAug 25, 20236 minWho was America's Spurgeon?When German Reformed theologian Philip Schaff described the United States to his fellow Europeans in 1855, he could not help but marvel...
Obbie Tyler ToddAug 11, 20234 minNineteenth Century America as Described by Nineteenth Century AmericansIn his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), historian David W. Blight concludes that Douglass...
Obbie Tyler ToddAug 7, 20235 minThe Terrifying Eyes of Charles Grandison FinneyCharles Grandison Finney (1792–1875) has been dubbed the father of modern revivalism for good reason. As the most famous preacher of the...