Adam Laats (SUNY Binghamton), in a 2016 guest post for the S-USIH blog, noted that the series of culture wars in America’s past were not separate incidents, but rather “part of a history that builds on itself to influence contemporary debates in each new generation.” To stretch this view, my 2018 intellectual history of Texas, Lone Star Mind, anticipated the culture war, framing the long tug-of-war between scholars and traditionalists over the ownership of Texas history as a contest of metanarratives. Subsuming the approach was my conviction that American society was drifting leftward toward a post-Christian age. If the secularization Read more