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The Eights | 1978 and the Rise of the Religious Right

Jerry Falwell appears pleased as he poses in front of the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., with his singers and American flags in the background, Nov. 10, 1980.

Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian and author of The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels (Random House, 2018), discusses the rise of the religious right which came into the political sphere when Evangelical Christians began to protest the right to abortion in 1978, in this installment of The Eights: A Brief History of the American Culture Wars.

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