Mark Cheathem is Professor of History and project director of the Papers of Martin Van Buren at Cumberland University. This interview is based on his new book The Coming Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). JF: What led you to write The Coming Democracy?...
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Today in my United States history survey course we talked about democracy in early 19th-century America. When I lecture on this topic I try to show my students how the process of democratization influenced virtually every dimension of American life...
Virtual Office Hours: Fall 2014 – Episode 5
“Thoughts on Nathan Hatch’s The Democratization of American Christianity (Part II)” In which I try to offer an accessible definition of Calvinist and Arminian views of salvation. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80kwbRclsOo] Click here to find the Bebbington Quadrilateral and Conference on Faith and History....
Virtual Office Hours: Fall 2014 – Episode 4
“Thoughts on Nathan Hatch’s The Democratization of American Christianity“ [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnuJEMe7-fM]...
Live Blog Feed of the ASCH Amanda Portfield Panel
Correspondent Christopher Graham weighs in again, calling our attention to the work of someone who blogged this important session. Check out the posts on the session here. (See our original post on the panel here)....
American Society of Church History Session on Amanda Porterfield’s “Conceived in Doubt”
Jones, Bowman, and Altman at the Book Exhibit I really wanted to attend this session, but I had a conflict. The American Society of Church History devoted an entire session today to Amanda Porterfield’s Conceived in Doubt:Religion and Politics in...