Ep. 52: Matthew Stewart on Religion, Abolitionism, and the Making of America

Luke speaks with Matthew Stewart about his latest book, An Emancipation of the Mind. Conversation topics include revolutionary and counterrevolutionary movements in 18th- and 19th-century U.S. history, the role of religion in the abolitionist and anti-abolitionist movements, the influence of Tom Paine on revolutionary thought, European immigrants and veterans of the 1848 revolutions such as Karl Heinzen and Ottilie Assing, and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.