Podcast

Why did the Library hire an expert handwriting analyst to review the diaries of Eddy’s personal secretary?

Find out what scholars mean by the term “new religious movement”—and why the nineteenth century was a dynamic time of religious innovation.

Find out what we’re learning as we publish Eddy’s correspondence. As her life and work took on new dimensions, just who was she communicating with—and why?

Learn how concern over the weakening of religion in the late 1800s led to an influential movement known as “Muscular Christianity.”