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Nixon’s First Cover-Up: The Religious Life of a Quaker President

By H. Larry Ingle. University of Missouri Press, 2015. 288 pages. $50/hardcover or eBook. In the wake of the Watergate…

Reviewed by Robert Dockhorn

What value does a draft have?

I was surprised and troubled to see an article in Friends Journal that concludes that Quakers should, "demand that the…

J. E. McNeil

Stolen Trust: Theft at the Meetinghouse

How one meeting responded to embezzlement from within.

Larry Ingle

Our Beloved Friend: The Life and Writings of Anne Emlen Mifflin

By Gary B. Nash and Emily M. Teipe. Penn State University Press, 2022. 370 pages. $124.95/hardcover. Despite the efforts of…

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

The Quaker Scout: Testimony of a Civil War Non-Combatant of the Woodlawn Antislavery Colony

By Jonathan Roberts, presented by Martha Claire Catlin. Quaker Heron Press, 2022. 320 pages. $19.99/paperback. First published in 1891 in…

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War

By William G. Thomas III. Yale University Press, 2020. 432 pages. $35/hardcover  or eBook. As a historian, I probably fully…

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

Forum October 2013

Responses to "We Think He Might be a Boy," our first color issue, "Richard Nixon's First Cover-Up," "Quaker Respond to the George Zimmerman Verdict," and the Golden Rule project.

Staff

Historical Roots of the Modern Quaker Dilemma

Larry Ingle

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

By Marcus Rediker. Beacon Press, 2017. 194 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $25.99/eBook. Should readers choose to read this compelling biography—and those who…

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

Richard Nixon’s First Cover-Up

While Nixon occasionally mentioned his Quaker background, the exact nature of his faith remained obscure.

Larry Ingle