Has religious freedom always existed in America? Does this mean that the United States was founded as a Christian nation? When did religious freedom, as we know it, emerge? Do the religion clauses...

Abington School District v. Schempp In this 1963 case, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a Pennsylvania law requiring the reading of Biblical scriptures in public schools was a violation o...

During the seventeenth century, the religious-freedom seeking Puritans of Massachusetts Bay arrested, harassed, or kicked out every non-Puritan that tried to enter "their" colony. They hated Quaker...