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The Author’s Corner with Gabriel Loiacono

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 2, 2021

Gabriel Loiacono is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. This interview is based on his new book, How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories (Oxford University Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write How...

The 1619 Project and the latest battle over teaching history

John Fea   |  November 9, 2021

Jake Silverstein, the editor of The New York Times Magazine, has published a helpful 8100-world piece on the origins of the 1619 Project and how it has triggered the latest debate over the teaching of American history in schools. Here...

Changes at the Omohundro Institute

John Fea   |  October 8, 2021

Here is the press release: WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (Oct. 8, 2021) – Colonial Williamsburg has renewed its commitment to independent scholarly research by joining William & Mary to financially support the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. The Omohundro Institute...

“Fearless” early American and Mormon historian Richard Bushman turns 90

John Fea   |  September 29, 2021

Trent Toone of Deseret News caught up with the author of books such as From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 (1967); King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (1985); The Refinement of America (1993); Joseph Smith:...

The Author’s Corner with Bryan Rindfleisch

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 13, 2021

Bryan Rindfleisch is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University. This interview is based on his new book, Brothers of Coweta: Kinship, Empire, and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Muscogee World (University of South Carolina Press, 2021). JF: What led you...

Recovered from the archives: “An Open Letter to the Students of Charis Bible College”

John Fea   |  August 12, 2021

Yesterday a reader told me that he was searching for this 2016 post and couldn’t find it. It seems to have disappeared from The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog. But I managed to find it at another site on...

Episode 87: Religion and the American Revolution

John Fea   |  July 18, 2021

In her new book Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History, historian Katherine Carte offers a major reassessment of the relationship between Christianity and the American Revolution. She argues that religion helped set the terms by which Anglo-Americans encountered the...

Yale’s Harry Stout is still going strong

John Fea   |  July 10, 2021

I am teaching Harry Stout’s The Divine Dramatist again this Fall. I find it to be the most undergraduate accessible biography of Whitefield available. My students really like it. Stout has been busy of late. He has two biographies in...

Did Benjamin Franklin successfully thwart cancel culture?

John Fea   |  April 22, 2021

Here is “presidential historian” Jane Hampton Cook yesterday on Fox News: Cook’s appearance follows this article at Fox News. What qualifies one as a “presidential historian?” Unfortunately, Cook doesn’t really know what she is talking about here. Cook comes from...

The Author’s Corner with Kelly Jones

Annie Thorn   |  April 12, 2021

Kelly Jones is Assistant Professor of History at Arkansas Tech University. This interview is based on her new book, A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas (University of Georgia Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write A...

The Author’s Corner with Robert Wooster

Annie Thorn   |  April 5, 2021

Robert Wooster is recently retired as Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he taught for thirty-five years. This interview is based on his new book, The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation...

The Author’s Corner with Steven Elliott

Annie Thorn   |  April 1, 2021

Steven Elliott is Part-time Lecturer of History at Rutgers University-Newark. This interview is based on his new book, Surviving the Winters: Housing Washington’s Army during the American Revolution (University of Oklahoma Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write Surviving...

The Author’s Corner with Jeanne Abrams

Annie Thorn   |  February 8, 2021

Jeanne Abrams is Professor at the University Libraries and the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. This interview is based on her new book, A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe...

The Author’s Corner with Kirsten Fischer

Annie Thorn   |  January 28, 2021

Kirsten Fischer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. This interview is based on her new book, American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). JF:...

The Author’s Corner with Richard Pointer

Annie Thorn   |  November 12, 2020

Richard Pointer is Professor Emeritus of History at Westmont College. This interview is based on his new book, Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America (University of Nebraska Press, 2020). JF: What led you to write...

Episode 74: An Independent Woman in Revolutionary America

John Fea   |  November 8, 2020

In this episode we talk with historian Lorri Glover about Eliza Lucas Pinckney, a woman who lived through the American Revolution in South Carolina. Pinckney’s story sheds light on gender, agriculture, politics, and slavery in this era and unsettles many...

Elections in early America: a reading list

John Fea   |  October 13, 2020

Over at the blog of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, Liz Covart offers a nice bibliography of books on early American election and political history. Here is a taste: Richard R. Beeman, The Varieties of Political Experience...

The Author’s Corner with Eric Smith

Annie Thorn   |  September 3, 2020

Eric Smith is Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, Tennessee and Adjunct Professor of Historical Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. This interview is based on his new book, Oliver Hart and the Rise of...

Night four at the 2020 DNC convention

John Fea   |  August 21, 2020

It was a great night for the Democratic Party. I don’t think they could have done this convention any better. Frankly, it may have been more effective than a traditional arena convention. The GOP has a tough act to follow....

The Author’s Corner with Christopher Pearl

Annie Thorn   |  August 13, 2020

Christopher Pearl is Associate Professor of History at Lycoming College. This interview is based on his new book, Conceived in Crisis: The Revolutionary Creation of an American State (University of Virginia Press, 2020). JF: What led you to write Conceived in...

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