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Search Results for: So What Can You Do With a History major

Trump’s executive order on American history has little to do with history

John Fea   |  March 29, 2025

Donald Trump recently released a new executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” Let’s break it down. Trump writes: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States […]

LONG FORM: Jackson, Trump and Constitutional Crisis

Robert Tracy McKenzie   |  March 5, 2025

It’s an old but timely question: ‘What sort of hope have we?’

“No one is going to pay you to do things that can be done as easily as having AI write your essays for you. How are you going to acquire skills that may actually be valuable?”

John Fea   |  March 3, 2025

Jim Cullen, a history teacher at Greenwich County Day School and a Current contributing editor, talks to his class: We’re in my “Money and Morals” elective, where we’ve been reading Hernan Diaz’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning 2022 novel Trust, a fun-house mirror of postmodernism […]

January 6th pardons

John H. Haas   |  January 22, 2025

Almost all the 1500+ rioters have been pardoned by President Trump. What should we make of this?

American Carnage 2.0

John Fea   |  January 20, 2025

The new president did not use the phrase “American carnage” today like he did in his 2016 inaugural address, but it sounded like the same speech. The central theme was that America sucks, but Trump will restore a “golden age.” […]

Liberals “abandoned the truism that arguments are true or false, irrespective of the race or the origins of the person who makes them.”

John Fea   |  January 14, 2025

Michael Ignatieff is the former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Here is a taste of his New York Times piece, “I was born liberal. Defeat taught me our hidden reslience.” Ignatieff writes: “To rebuilt liberalism, we’ll need to […]

LONG FORM: Can Christians Write? 

Paul J. Pastor   |  January 10, 2025

Make no mistake: Christian art offers a distinctive gift to the world

Peter Wood’s “Black Majority” turns 50

John Fea   |  January 8, 2025

When I started teaching colonial American history twenty-five years ago, Peter Wood’s Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina was on the syllabus. I used to teach it alongside Edmund Morgan’s American Slavery-American Freedom. (Today my students no […]

The Author’s Corner with Jason S. Lantzer

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 27, 2024

Jason S. Lantzer is Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program. This interview is based on his new book, “Prohibition Is Here to Stay”: The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in America (University of Notre Dame […]

Interview: Robert Edwards on John Chrysostom’s Consolation to Stagirius

Nadya Williams   |  December 20, 2024

What one Church Father’s advice to a suffering monk can teach us now.

Albert Mohler is free to advance his Christian nationalism, but he should be more careful when using American history to do it.

John Fea   |  November 17, 2024

Albert Mohler believes that the United States was built, and should continue to be built, on a Christian foundation. Read his entire argument here. The piece stems from his 2024 speech to the National Conservatism Conference. Let’s see how Mohler […]

Brooks: “I’m also seeing many people who are…so imprisoned by their mental models, they can interpret these results only in identity politics terms”

John Fea   |  November 15, 2024

Today at The New York Times David Brooks offers a stinging critique of identity politics in the wake of the 2024 election. Here are a couple of snippets: Why were so many of our expectations wrong? Well, we all walk […]

Don’t call it a realignment: Thoughts on the 2024 election

Jon D. Schaff   |  November 13, 2024

Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for another wild ride.

Thank You and Goodbye

Jim Cullen   |  November 5, 2024

Harris has my vote. She doesn’t have my allegiance.

The Author’s Corner with Ian T. Iverson

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 28, 2024

Ian T. Iverson is Associate Editor of the John Dickinson Writings Project. This interview is based on his new book, Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War (Kent State University Press, […]

Some Evangelicals Are Looking for a Reason to Vote for Harris

John Fea   |  October 24, 2024

She’s not giving them one

American Christian voters and third parties: a historical overview

Daniel K. Williams   |  September 25, 2024

While third-party voting has never been the norm among American Christians, it has a long history.

Interview: Timothy Larsen on George MacDonald’s Diary of an Old Soul

Timothy Larsen and Nadya Williams   |  September 13, 2024

Timothy Larsen is the McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College. He is a Contributing Editor at Current and as of this summer, the author of four books on the nineteenth-century Scottish George MacDonald. This […]

LONG FORM: Whose Culture? Which Solidarity?

Christopher Shannon   |  September 9, 2024

Further reflections on James Davison Hunter’s ‘Democracy and Solidarity’

You’ve got to get a group together!

Elizabeth Stice   |  August 26, 2024

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” It is an old proverb, but it applies in more areas than people might realize.

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