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Christine Leigh Heyrman

March 22, 2021

On this episode of Inquiry, we talk with CHRISTINE LEIGH HEYRMAN, the Robert W. and Shirley P. Gimble Professor of American History at the University of Maryland. Her new book looks at the sexual politics of evangelical Christians in the early 1800s: DOOMED ROMANCE: BROKEN HEARTS, LOST SOULS, AND SEXUAL TUMULT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA.