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The Author’s Corner with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 20, 2023

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is an instructor at the University of New Orleans and an IUPUI-SUSIH Community Scholar. This interview is based on her new book, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America (University of North...

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Vincent Lloyd: It is time “to interrogate the received wisdom that says every activist cause needs an enemy to demonize.”

John Fea   |  August 21, 2023

Some of you may remember Vincent Lloyd‘s essay, “A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell.“ In a recent piece at Plough, the Villanova Africana studies and theology professor tells the story of the students at Swarthmore College who demonized college...

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Larry Schweikart: activist historian

John Fea   |  September 17, 2022

Back in 2002 I met Larry Schweikart. He was a professor of history at the University of Dayton. I was interviewing for a job in the history department at the University of Dayton. He may have even been on the...

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The Author’s Corner with Melissa Ford

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 2, 2022

Melissa Ford is Assistant Professor of History at Slippery Rock University. This interview is based on her new book, A Brick and a Bible: Black Women’s Radical Activism in the Midwest during the Great Depression (Southern Illinois University Press, 2022)....

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The Author’s Corner with Josiah Rector

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 23, 2022

Josiah Rector is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston. This interview is based on his new book, Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). JF: What led you to ​write...

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Episode 100: Christian Historians as Activists?

John Fea   |  April 24, 2022

In this episode, our 100th, host John Fea redelivers his 2022 Conference on Faith and History presidential address. Listen at: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeartRadio Spotify Podchaser Podbean The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast is a product of Current. If you...

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Are humanities scholars engaged in too much activism?

John Fea   |  April 22, 2022

Today I recorded Episode 100 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. It will drop on Sunday with the title “Christian Historians as Activists?” I have no guest for this episode. Instead, I use the episode to redeliver my...

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The intellectual as “truth’s servant” vs. the intellectual as “truth’s representative”

John Fea   |  December 10, 2021

Should intellectuals speak truth to power? What are the limits to such an understanding of the intellectual life? Check out Mark Lilla‘s timely piece, “Treason of the Intellectuals.” Here are a few excerpts: The political prophet’s kingdom is still not...

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The Author’s Corner with Eric Smith

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 27, 2021

Eric Smith is Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church and Adjunct Professor of Historical Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. This interview is based on his new book, John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America (Oxford University Press,...

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George Will: “There are a lot of people on campus nowadays who just don’t belong there — they shouldn’t be teachers; they should be political activists”

John Fea   |  September 18, 2021

Over at Politico, Zack Stanton asks George Will if “conservatism” means anything anymore. Here is a taste of his interview with the conservative columnist: In your book, you write that “America’s most dispiriting intellectual phenomenon is the degradation of higher...

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