Elizabeth A. Athens is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut. This interview is based on her new book, William Bartram’s Visual Wonders: The Drawings of an American Naturalist (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024). JF: What led […]
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The Author’s Corner with Keidrick Roy
Keidrick Roy is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. This interview is based on his new book, American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
Boston Seminar: Day 3
Our week in Boston with Roanoke-area K-12 history teachers marches on! Find out what happened on Day 1 and Day 2. Day 3 started with a morning lecture on the Enlightenment in Boston. My lecture was an attempt to explain […]
More cherry-picking from the Bartons
Watch the clip below. Tim Barton, the president of Wallbuilders, is speaking at an evangelical congregation: So what is Tim Barton doing here? He wants his audience to believe that the founders sought national unity at the time the Revolution […]
The Author’s Corner with Stuart McKee
Stuart McKee is Associate Professor of Design at the University of San Francisco. This interview is based on his new book, Indigenous Enlightenment: Printing and Education in Evangelical Colonialism, 1790-1850 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]
The Author’s Corner with Jan Wim Buisman
Jan Wim Buisman is a retired Lecturer on the History of Christianity, now a Guest Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR). This interview is based on his new book, Lightning in the Age of […]
Historian Jonathan Couser responds to George Will’s column on individualism and identity politics
Yesterday I wrote a post on George Will’s recent column on identity politics and modernity. Over at Facebook, historian Jonathan Couser responded to Wills. Here is his take, published with his permission. –JF George Will is one of the few […]