The National Conservative movement is hosting its fourth annual conference in July. Watch: Speakers include: Albert Mohler (President Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) Steve Bannon (Trump adviser and alt-right leader) Josh Hawley (U.S. Senator from Missouri) Stephen Miller (Trump adviser and […]
Search Results for: What can you do with a history major
Headline of the day: “History Major Discerned Call to Priesthood While Working at Wawa”
How could I resist calling your attention to a headline containing the words “History Major,” “Priesthood,” and “Wawa”? From Catholic Philly: Born and raised in Glenside, and a parishioner at Saint Luke the Evangelist Church, Transitional Deacon Brendan Zehner says he […]
Is book publishing doomed? Point and counterpoint
The rumors of the death of book publishing have been greatly exaggerated.
INTERVIEW: John Fea on Why Study History
It’s an antidote to narcissism and a pathway to change
American Bible Society closes its $60 million museum
American Bible Society (ABS) spent a lot of time and money to build the Faith and Liberty Discovery Center (FLDC). I was present at the first content planning meeting for this museum. During that meeting, the ABS planners believed that […]
Donald McGovern?
The unexpected resonances of a dreary presidential campaign
The Author’s Corner with Ralph Young
Ralph Young is Professor of Instruction in History at Temple University. This interview is based on his new book, American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent (NYU Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write American Patriots? RY: What inspired […]
The Donut Principle of Democracy
Recognizing the sweet taste of compromise
What is happening at the American Bible Society?
My book The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society ends just before the society’s 200th anniversary in 2016. If you want to get a sense of what has happened to this storied benevolent society since then, check […]
What Does the Second Anniversary of the Invasion of Ukraine Mean?
For many reasons, it’s a question we would rather not consider
Do young “breakthrough scholars” in US history still exist?
Rumors of the death of US history have been greatly exaggerated.
The Prophetic Voice You May Not Have Heard
Letha Dawson Scanzoni’s legacy lives on
REVIEW: The Crack-Up of the American Evangelical Church?
A historian finds herself nodding along with Tim Alberta’s hopeful vision for American evangelicalism
REVIEW: Whose Kingdom, Power, and Glory?
A former GOP insider finds himself nodding along with Tim Alberta’s damning portrait of the Christian Right
A liberal arts education is good for your mental health
Rosario Ceballo is a psychologist, expert on adolescent development, and dean of Georgetown University’s College of Arts & Sciences. Here is a taste of her piece at Inside Higher Ed: I began my role as dean of the College of […]
Is bad history protected under the free speech clause of the First Amendment?
I mentioned this story in today’s Evangelical Roundup, but I thought it deserved its own post. In case you missed it, David Barton, the political activist who uses the American past to promote his Christian Right agenda, is suing the […]
American secularization hasn’t followed the script that secularization theory would predict
Secularization in the U.S. hasn’t proceeded along the lines that secularization theory predicted. Why not? What does it all mean?
Ideas in Progress: Pearl J. Young on southern religion and the Civil War
A physics major turned historian tells about her research.
Pamela Paul: “a person can oppose racism on firm ethical or philosophical or pragmatic grounds without embracing Kendi’s conception of antiracism.”
Pamela Paul, the former editor of The New York Times Book Review, is the latest to use the Ibram X. Kendi controversy at Boston University to critique Kendi’s philosophy of “antiracism.” Here is Paul: “…many major universities, corporations, nonprofit groups […]
LONG FORM: Where Have You Gone, Abraham Kuyper?Â
Public theology for different publics