The States Project
Iowa: A Pastor’s Son Notes When Politics Came to the Pulpit
A Pastor’s Son Notes When Politics Came to the Pulpit.
Franklin Roosevelt
The States Project
Mississippi: A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken
A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken.
Excerpt
Paradise Lust: The Lawyer Who Found Eden along the Florida Panhandle
On Elvy Edison Callaway’s hand-drawn map of northwest Florida, the Jim Woodruff Dam over the Apalachicola River looks like the narrow wrist of a giant …
The Table
Let’s Remember History, When Religious Institutions Welcomed Government Support
It is commonplace to complain about government mismanagement of welfare and social reform, and to speak wistfully of days when religious institutions did much better. …
Writers tell us stories about where they discovered religion and politics in their states.
THE TABLE 
A setting to debate the issues of the day.
