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INTERVIEW: Francis Gary Powers, Jr. on the 1960 U-2 Incident
The son of CIA pilot Gary Powers has a story to tell—and a history to preserve
The Author’s Corner with Giuliana Perrone
Giuliana Perrone is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This interview is based on her new book, Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023). JF: What led […]
Reconsidering Homeschooling, Part I: Growth and Benefits
Post-pandemic, educating children at home is suddenly mainstream
Ideas in progress: Andrew Jones on Scottish Presbyterians
Andrew Michael Jones completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2018 and is an incoming Assistant Professor of History at Reinhardt University near Atlanta, Georgia. His research focuses on religion, identity and race in modern Scotland and the […]
The Author’s Corner with Matthew Dennis
Matthew Dennis is Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. This interview is based on his new book, American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]
Left Behind
What does it profit a theological tradition to gain Hollywood but lose its soul?
Ideas in progress: Dixie Dillon Lane on parenting, homeschooling, and writing while juggling
You are a historian and a homeschool mom of four. What does a “typical” day look like for you? I roll through my day like a boulder careening down an unpredictable hill. I place a lot of structure on my […]
Dropping out of College: A Crisis We Must Address
Amid deep structural challenges, remember the power of a personal response
Evangelical roundup for April 13, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Iowa evangelicals love Donald Trump. Nikki Haley is the commencement speaker at Pat Robertson’s Regent University in Virginia Beach. The diversity of evangelical support for Israel. Shane’s list of common sense gun laws: French […]
What if students WANT the humanities in their college curriculum?
Most of the time, the well-merited jeremiads about the state of the humanities in American universities come from scholars. At the same time, most of the attacks themselves come from university administrators or system-level administrators (for state universities). But last […]
What would C. Vann Woodward say?
James Cobb, the Spalding Distinguished professor of history emeritus at the University of Georgia, is the author of C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian. It is the most satisfying work of American history I have read thus far in 2023. You […]
The Author’s Corner with Stephanie Ryberg-Webster
Stephanie Ryberg-Webster is Associate Professor of Urban Affairs in the Levin College of Public Affairs & Education at Cleveland State University. This interview is based on her new book, Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland, […]
In 1920, Eugene Debs got 1 million votes for president of the United States. He was in jail.
Today someone asked me if Donald Trump could still run for president if he is in jail. I don’t know the answer to that question, but I do know that Socialist Party candidate Eugene Debs received over 900,000 votes while […]
Praise God for suffering? Reformed evangelicals say yes
When Nadya and I visited a Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) congregation in Atlanta this past Sunday, one of the worship songs we sang was Shane & Shane’s 2021 rendition of Psalm 42 (“As the Deer”), which includes this riff […]
The Legacy of The Jesus Revolution
What has Chuck Smith’s and Lonnie Frisbee’s hippie revival wrought?
Ideas in progress: William Thomas Okie
What is the focus of your current book project? What are the big questions that you are investigating and the main stories that you hope to tell in this book? The book project is called Wayside: The Hidden Histories of […]
The Author’s Corner with Elliott West
Elliott West is History Consultant at the University of Arkansas. This interview is based on his new book, Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Continental […]
The Author’s Corner with Thomas Sheppard
Thomas Sheppard is Assistant Professor of Military History at the Marine Corps University Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia. This interview is based on his book, Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic (Naval Institute Press, […]
What I am reading: Brian Scoles
How did I become a quirky reader? In large part, I blame it on the World Book Encyclopedia. I can only imagine how many hours I joyfully wasted on my guilty pleasure. This probably tells you something about the social […]