Jon Meacham
Managing editor, Newsweek

Jon Meacham

Meacham is Newsweek’s managing editor and author of bestseller "American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation."

Archive: Jon Meacham

Oath to God Shows Regard for Church and State

The secular nature of the American government is one of its abiding strengths, but moments of prayer or a "So help me, God" here and there are no threat to the wall of separation.

By Jon Meacham | January 14, 2009; 04:45 PM ET | Comments (45)

Andrew Jackson's Sturdy Wall of Separation

Jon Meacham | Jackson, immersed in the Bible, set the right example by resisting calls for the "Christian Party in politics"

By Jon Meacham | November 20, 2008; 08:33 AM ET | Comments (0)

Enemies and How to Fight Them

How do you fight an enemy that believes it is acting according to divine authority?

By Jon Meacham | August 13, 2008; 04:48 PM ET | Comments (27)

Conveying That Faith Is A Most Ordinary Thing

I am currently and unabashedly trying to make my children creatures of religious habit

By Jon Meacham | December 7, 2006; 11:54 AM ET | Comments (93)

The Consummate American Holiday

Thanksgiving is the ultimate American holiday: religious without being sectarian, with room for the nonreligious to simply pause and celebrate our common humanity.

By Jon Meacham | November 22, 2006; 07:17 PM ET | Comments (10)

About Jon Meacham

For as long as I can remember, I have been endlessly curious about the past -- or, put more precisely, about how the things that are came to be the way they are. Southerners -- I am from Tennessee --...

By Jon Meacham | November 14, 2006; 06:20 PM ET | Comments (348)

 
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