Great Awakening

How the prophet’s ministry helps us understand what may come next a year after revival broke out.

Founded by an enslaved minister in 1776, the historic Baptist site had been covered by a museum parking lot.

A decade after the first missionaries arrived, the gospel tore across the islands in the 1830s.

A new biography helps us come to terms with the unsavory side of the great revivalist’s mission to America.

Pulitzer Prize–winner Frances FitzGerald looks at the long history behind evangelical political activism.

Whites and blacks worshiped together in colonial America. What happened?

How the threat of eternal punishment stirred moral and spiritual urgency in early America.

George Whitefield was once the most famous man in America. Historian Thomas Kidd explains why the celebrity evangelist shouldn’t be forgotten.

Sarah Osborn’s 18th-century life reveals an astonishing amount about the origins of American evangelicalism.

Thomas Kidd tells the story of a Great Awakening.