Kevin M. Kruse

Professor of History, Princeton University

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Interviews

Featured

Politicking with Larry King
Politicking with Larry King
“Was America Really Founded As a ‘Christian Nation’?” Most Americans believe the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation. But, is this merely a myth? Larry talks with the author of a new book claiming ‘Corporate America’ invented  ... Read More
June 4, 2015
Politicking with Larry King
KCRW’s To the Point with Warren Olney
KCRW’s To the Point with Warren Olney
“One Nation under God…but Since When?” American values may be compatible with the Christian Bible…but the Founding Fathers insisted on the separation of church and state. Yet many Americans believe they live in a historically “Christian Nation ... Read More
April 10, 2015
KCRW’s To the Point with Warren Olney
NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross
NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross
How ‘One Nation’ Didn’t Become ‘Under God’ Until The ’50s Religious Revival The words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and the phrase “In God we trust” on the back of a dollar bill ha ... Read More
March 30, 2015
NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross

Profiles

Eric Goldman, “Kruse-in’ for a Bruisin’”
Carolina Alumni Review, pp. 52-60
November/December 2019

Mark F. Bernstein, “#History in 280 Characters”
Princeton Alumni Weekly
October 23, 2019

Emma Pettit, “How Kevin Kruse Became History’s Attack Dog”
Chronicle of Higher Education
December 16, 2018

David Perry, “Kevin Kruse Explains How to Beat Demagogues Using History”
Pacific Standard Magazine
November 28, 2018

Dick Polman, “Civil Wrongs”
Smithsonian Magazine
October 2, 2007

Radio & TV Interviews

“Fault Lines”
The Michelangelo Signorile Show, Sirius XM
February 1, 2019

“The Fault in Our Party Lines”
The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC (New York)
January 22, 2019

“Political Dysfunction Since 1974”
Radio Times with Marty-Moss Coane, WHYY (Philadelphia)
January 22, 2019

“Fault Lines”
The Dean Obeidallah Show, SiriusXM
January 17, 2019

“America to a Fault”
1A, WAMU/National Public Radio (Washington, DC)
January 17, 2019

“Fault Lines”
The Bill Press Show (Washington, DC)
January 14, 2019

“Morning Joe”
MSNBC
January 11, 2019

“Fault Lines”
Majority Report with Sam Seder
January 7, 2019

“Historians and Social Media”
C-SPAN, Book TV
January 3, 2019

“God Bless America: How Christ Became Central to US Capitalism and Politics”
The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
November 25, 2015

“Did Corporate America Invent Christian America?”
PBS’s American Forum with Douglas Blackmon
October 18, 2015

“Has America ever really been a ‘Christian nation’?”
ABC Radio (Australia), Religion and Ethics Report
July 8, 2015

“How God Wound Up In the Pledge…”
UpFront, KPFA
July 8, 2015

“Kevin M. Kruse’s “One Nation Under God”
WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane
June 10, 2015

“Where America’s Religiosity Began, and How it’s Changing Now”
State of Belief Radio with Rev. Welton Gaddy
June 6, 2015

“Was America Really Founded As a ‘Christian Nation’?”
Politicking with Larry King
June 4, 2015

“51: Godsell”
WNUR’s This is Hell!
May 30, 2015

“One Nation Under God…and Corporation”
Conversations with Jeff Schechtman
May 26, 2015

“One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America”
New Books in American History with Lilian Calles Barger
May 22, 2015

“How Corporate America Invented Christian America…
The Thom Hartmann Program
May 6, 2015

“5/5 Kevin M. Kruse: One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America”
Sirius XM’s Majority Report with Sam Seder
May 5, 2015

“One Nation Under God?”
Freethought Radio
May 4, 2015

“How Corporate America Invented Christian America”
WAMC’s Roundtable
May 1, 2015

“‘Christian America’ as a Counter to the New Deal”
WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show
May 1, 2015

“Show 529: One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America.”
Equal Time for Freethought
April 19, 2015

“The Birth of Christian Libertarianism”
KPFA’s Letters and Politics
April 14, 2015

“One Nation under God…but Since When?”
KCRW’s To the Point with Warren Olney
April 10, 2015

“How ‘One Nation’ Didn’t Become ‘Under God’ Until The ’50s Religious Revival”
NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross
March 30, 2015

“The Marriage of Big Business and Christianity”
KPFA’s Against the Grain
March 15, 2017

“Book Discussion on One Nation Under God”
C-SPAN’s Book TV
March 3, 2015

“What Just Happened? Two Historians Discuss the 2016 Election and Its Aftermath”
Princeton Alumni Day
February 25, 2017

“How Corporate America Invented Christian America”
Interfaith Radio
February 18, 2016

Print Interviews

“Political Division? That’s Nothing New”
Vogue
March 7, 2019

“Q&A with Kevin M. Kruse”
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb
June 8, 2015

“Fuse Book Interview: When Did America Become a Christian Nation?”
The Arts Fuse
May 27, 2015

“The Invention Of Christian America”
Digg
April 27, 2015

“‘Pagan statism’: The frightening corporate/Christian alliance that invented “In God We Trust” and “One Nation Under God”
Salon
April 25, 2015

“Kruse resets timeline of America as ‘One Nation Under God’”
Princeton University
April 22, 2015

“The Invention of a Corporate Christian America”
Religion Dispatches
April 20, 2015

“Powell’s Q&A: Kevin M. Kruse”
PowellsBooks.Blog
April 13, 2015

“‘Christian America’: Corporate invention or founding fathers’ vision?”
Religion News Service
April 3, 2015

Podcasts

This Day in Esoteric Political History
July 30, 2020 and August 1, 2020

Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan
December 5, 2019

The Nostalgia Trap
October 22, 2019

The Bulwark with Charlie Sykes
October 1, 2019

Buzzfeed’s AM2DM
August 9, 2019

The GOTMFV Show
August 5, 2019

The Rogue Historian
July 29, 2019

Slate’s Trumpcast
July 3, 2019

The Bulwark with Charlie Sykes
June 25, 2019

Voices in My Head with Rick Lee Jones
March 6, 2019

The Halli Casser-Jayne Show,
February 12, 2019

Unpresidented with John Aravosis and Cliff Schechter
January 28, 2019

Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara
January 24, 2019

The Bulwark with Charlie Sykes
January 17, 2019

Uncommontary with Marty Duren
January 15, 2019

Past Present Podcast
January 8, 2019

Half-Hour of Heterodoxy with Chris Martin
January 2, 2019

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