Book Contributions
The Cambridge History of Religions in America 3 Volume Set
The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry
The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-constitutional Age
Remembering Armageddon: Religion and the First World War
The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics: The Modest Republic
Podcast Interviews
Book Chapters
“‘Let things be called by their right names’: Difference as Constraint in American Exceptionalism.” Chapter in The Historical Mind (forthcoming).
“A Land Like No Other: American Exceptionalism and the Problem of Scale” In Mark T. Mitchell and Jason Peters, eds., Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018).
“Together for the Gospel of Americanism.” In Gordon L. Heath, ed., American Churches and the First World War (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2016).
“Was the First World War a War of Religion?” In Philip Jenkins, ed., Remembering Armageddon: Religion and the First World War (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2015).
“The Messianic Hoax.” In The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics: The Modest Republic, edited by Michael P. Federici, Mark Mitchell, and Richard M. Gamble. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013.
“The Historian’s Virtues.” In Rethinking the Teaching of American History, ed. Michael P. Federici. Louisville, KY: Butler Books, 2012.
“Between God and Caesar: The First World War and America’s Religious Communities.” In The Cambridge History of Religions in America, edited by Stephen Stein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
“An Education for Membership: Wendell Berry on Schools and Communities.” In The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry, ed. Mark Mitchell and Nathan Schlueter. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2011.
Articles
“Richard M. Gamble’s ‘A Fiery Gospel.”” The Page 99 Test. http://page99test.blogspot.com/2019/05/richard-m-gambles-fiery-gospel.html
“Two Kaisers in the Same Grave’: Prohibition at 100.” Law & Liberty, October 1, 2019. https://www.lawliberty.org/liberty-forum/two-kaisers-in-the-same-grave-prohibition-at-100/
“A Fiery Gospel: The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” New Horizons, October 2019. https://opc.org/nh.html?article_id=961
“John Lukacs Remembered.” Law & Liberty, July 12, 2019. https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/07/12/john-lukacs-remembered/
“Let Us Die to Make Men Free.” American Heritage, Summer 2019. https://www.americanheritage.com/let-us-die-make-men-free
“Chief Crusader of a Crusader State.” Law and Liberty, October 13, 2017 http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/chief-crusader-of-a-crusader-state/
“A Voters’ Guide for the Perplexed.” Townhall, November 8, 2016 http://townhall.com/columnists/richardgamble/2016/11/08/a-voters-guide-for-the-perplexed-n2242616 and The American Spectator, November 8, 2016. https://spectator.org/bio/richard-m-gamble/
“What the Founders Thought About ‘Classical’ Education.” Daily Signal, October 21, 2016. http://dailysignal.com/2016/10/21/what-the-founders-thought-about-the-value-of-a-classical-education/
“What We Talk About When We Talk About America.” Townhall, March 30, 2016. http://townhall.com/columnists/richardgamble/2016/03/30/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-america-n2141265
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic and American Civil Religion.” Modern Age 56, No. 4 (Fall 2014) 55-64. “Gettysburg Gospel.” The American Conservative 12, No. 6 (November/December 2013) 28-31.
“American Exceptionalisms.” The American Conservative 11, No. 9 (September 2012) 12-15.
“Some Personal Reflections on John Lukacs and The Future of History.” Historically Speaking 12, no. 2 (April 2011): 32-33. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/historically_speaking/v012/12.2.gamble.html
“‘The Backside of the Universe’: McDougall’s Throes of Democracy.” Humanitas XIII, nos. 1&2 (2010): 31-35.
“Religion and Politics in the Shining City: How the ‘Winthrop Message’ Became the ‘Reagan Message.’” Krakowskie Studia Miedzynarodowe VI, No. 2 (2009): 219-236.
“The Stories We Tell.” Front Porch Republic (October 28, 2009). http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=6848
“The United States as World Savior: Costs and Consequences.” The Political Science Reviewer XXXVIII (2009): 105-124.
“How Right Was Reagan?” The American Conservative 8, No. 9 (May 4, 2009): 6-9. “‘The Last and Brightest Empire of Time’: Timothy Dwight and America as Voegelin’s ‘Authoritative Present,’ 1771-1787.” Humanitas XX, nos. 1&2 (2007): 13-35.
“Is It Good?: The New Testament Confronts ‘Christian’ Education.” Integrite: A Faith and Learning Journal 3, no. 1 (2004): 10-16.
“The ‘Fatal Flaw’ of Internationalism: Babbitt on Humanitarianism.” Translated into Chinese in Claes G. Ryn, ed. Humanitas: Rethinking It All. Beijing: San Lian Press, 2003.
“The Problem of Lincoln in Babbitt’s Thought.” Humanitas XV, no. 1 (2002): 69-80.
“Savior Nation: Woodrow Wilson and the Gospel of Service.” Humanitas XIV, no. 1 (2001): 4-22.
“The ‘Fatal Flaw’ of Internationalism: Babbitt on Humanitarianism.” Humanitas IX, no. 2 (1996): 4-18.
Book Reviews and Essays
Review of Coming Home: Reclaiming America’s Conservative Soul by Ted V. McAllister and Bruce P. Frohnen. The University Bookman (September 8 2019) https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/the-work-of-local-culture/
Review of The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest by Walter McDougall. The University Bookman (March 31, 2019) https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/that-old-time-civil-religion/
Review of The Path to War: How the First Word War Created Modern America by Michael S. Neiberg. The Journal of American History 104, no. 4 (March 1, 2018): 1047-1048. https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/104/4/1047/4932675
Review of Preacher Girl: Uldine Utley and the Industry of Revival by Thomas A. Robinson. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 69, no. 1 (January 2018).
“Turmoil and Transformation: The Great War.” Review of World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It by A. Scott Berg, ed. Law and Liberty (January 15, 2018). http://www.libertylawsite.org/book-review/turmoil-and-transformation-the-great-war
“First States, Then Nation.” Review of The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765-1800 by Aaron N. Coleman. The University Bookman (Fall 2017). http://www.kirkcenter.org/bookman/article/first-states-then-nation
Review of The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity by Jeremy Beer. Society (June 2017): 301-309.
Review of A History of Western Philosophy and Theology by John M. Frame. New Horizons (March 2017): 21-22.
Review of American Exceptionalism: An Idea That Made a Nation and Remade the World by Hilde Eliassen Restad. American Political Thought (Fall 2016): 717-20.
“Civil Religion—or Christianity?” Review of American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea by John D. Wilsey. The American Conservative 15, No. 2 (March-April 2016). Review of Under the Big Top: Big Tent Revivalism and American Culture, 1885–1925. By Josh McMullen. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 67, No. 3 (July 2016): 687.
Review of The Cross of War: Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War by Matthew McCullough. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 66, no. 4 (October 2015) 912.
“Was World War I the Last Crusade?” Review of The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade by Philip Jenkins. The American Conservative, 13, No. 4 (July/August 2014) 53-56. Review of Sacred Scripture, Sacred War by James P. Byrd. First Things, No. 238 (December 2013) 62-63. Review of On the History of Political Philosophy: Great Thinkers from Thucydides to Locke, by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz. The Review of Metaphysics 61 No. 3 (March 2013) 581-583.
“The Vanity of American Exceptionalism.” Review of American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History by Charles Murray. http://reason.com/archives/2013/09/19/the-vanity-of-american-exceptionalism
“John Lukacs’ Pursuit of Truth.” Review of History and the Human Condition by John Lukacs. http://www.libertylawsite.org/book-review/john-lukacs-pursuit-of-truth/
“The World America Unmade.” Review of The World America Made, by Robert Kagan. http://libertylawsite.org/book-review/the-world-america-unmade/
“Resisting Ideology’s Reductionism.” Review of The New Jacobinism: America as Revolutionary State, 2d expanded edition, by Claes G. Ryn. The University Bookman (Summer 2012). http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/resisting-ideologys-reductionism/
“Faith in Politics: A Review Essay.” Review of Left, Right, and Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics by Lisa Sharon Harper and D. C. Innes. Ordained Servant Online (August/September 2012). http://www.opc.org/os.html?article_id=322&cur_iss=Y
Review of War, the American State, and Politics since 1898 by Robert P. Saldin. The American Review of Politics 32 (Winter 2011-2012): 351-53.
Review of Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1915 by Mark Benbow. H-Diplo Roundtable Review XII, no. 21 (2011): 6-8. http://www.hnet.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XII-21.pdf
“Christ the Transformer?” Review of Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History by C. C. Pecknold, Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative by Carl R. Trueman, and Calvin and Culture: Exploring a Worldview, edited by David W. Hall and Marvin Padgett. Ordained Servant Online (April 2011) http://www.opc.org/os.html?article_id=249&issue_id=64
“What Shall It Profit a Man?” Review of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter. The American Conservative (February 2011).
“Writer—Statesman.” Review of George Kennan: A Writing Life by Lee Congdon. The University Bookman, 47, nos. 3&4 (2010): 16-18. http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/writer-statesman/
“Goodwill Hunting.” Review of Faith-Based War: From 9/11 to Catastrophic Success in Iraq (by T. Walter Herbert. The American Conservative (February 1, 2010) http://www.amconmag.com/article/2010/feb/01/00043/
“Calvin’s Doctrine of the State.” Review of Calvin's Doctrine of the State: A Reformed Doctrine and Its American Trajectory, the Revolutionary War, and the Founding of the Republic by Mark J. Larson. Ordained Servant, November 2009. http://www.opc.org/os.html?article_id=175
“God’s Country.” Review of The American Patriot’s Bible: The Word of God and the Shaping of America, Richard G. Lee, ed. (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2009) in The American Conservative (September 1, 2009) http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/sep/01/00040/
“Wilsonian Slaughter.” Review of The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century by G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Tony Smith, and What the World Should Be: Woodrow Wilson and the Crafting of a Faith-Based Foreign Policy by Malcolm D. Magee in The American Conservative, 8, no. 4 (February 23, 2009): 30-32. http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/feb/23/00030/
“The Allure of ‘Demonic Patriotism.’” Review of Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion by David Gelernter. Modern Age (Winter 2008): 80-83.
“City on a Hill: Caesar’s or God’s?” Review of A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State by Darryl Hart and Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion by David Gelernter. Ordained Servant (January 2008). http://www.opc.org/os.html?article_id=85
“Ideologies of Redemption.” Review of Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics from the Great War to the War on Terror by Michael Burleigh. First Principles. http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=26&loc=qs
“America Unbound.” Review essay of Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century by Robert Kagan and A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History by Thomas Bender. Orbis 51, no. 2 (Spring 2007): 349-362.
Review of The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody by David W. Bebbington. New Horizons. http://www.opc.org/review.html?review_id=123
Review of Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution by Alan Dawley. The Independent Review 11, no. 2 (September 2006): 316-319.
Review of The Ongoing Civil War: New Versions of Old Stories, Herman Hattaway and Ethan S. Rafuse, eds. The Journal of Southern History 71, no. 3 (August 2005): 707-709.
Review of The Stranahans of Fort Lauderdale: A Pioneer Family of the New River by Harry A. Kersey, Jr. The Journal of Southern History 71, no. 1 (February 2005): 190-191.
Review of America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire by Claes G. Ryn. The Intercollegiate Review 40, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2004): 55-57.
Review of War of Vengeance: Acts of Retaliation Against Civil War POWs by Lonnie R. Speer. The Journal of Southern History 69, no. 4 (November 2003) 936-937.
Review of The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. DiLorenzo. The Independent Review VII, no. 4 (Spring 2003): 611-614.
Review of The Letters of Centinel: Attacks on the U. S. Constitution, 1787-1788 by Samuel Bryan, edited and introduced by Warren Hope. Ideas on Liberty 50, no. 1 (January 2000): 58-59.
Review of Enterprising Southerners by Robert C. Kenzer. The Freeman 49, no. 2 (Feb. 1999): 56-57.
Review of Mobilizing for Modern War by Paul A. C. Koistinen. The Independent Review III, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 283-286.
Podcasts, TV, etc.
“The Great Tradition: An Interview with Richard Gamble.” The Classical Home School Podcast. (September 8, 2017) http://theclassicalhomeschool.com/ep22/
Interview, July 3, 2017 http://www.ouramericannetwork.org/story?title=You-Won-t-Believe-What-Happened-To-Jefferson-And-Adams-On-America-s-50th-Anniversary
“How the Great War Changed America: A Conversation with Richard Gamble.” (June 16, 2017) http://www.libertylawsite.org/2017/06/16/how-the-great-war-changed-america-a-conversation-with-richard-gamble/
“In Search of the City on a Hill.” Book TV/C-SPAN (September 5, 2016) https://www.c-span.org/video/?414716-2/richard-gamble-discusses-in-search-city-hill