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The Author’s Corner with Chad Pearson

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 18, 2022

Chad Pearson is Principal Lecturer of History at the University of North Texas. This interview is based on his new book, Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). JF: What...

More on Christian socialism

John Fea   |  October 12, 2022

Last weekend we dropped Episode 103 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast with historian Vaneesa Cook, author of Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left. I hope you enjoy this episode. If you are interested in learning more...

The Author’s Corner with Thomas Alter

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 10, 2022

Thomas Alter is Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University. This interview is based on his new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas (University of Illinois Press, 2022). JF: What led you...

Out of the Zoo: “We’re a union just by saying so!”

Annie Thorn   |  October 16, 2019

Annie Thorn is a sophomore history major from Kalamazoo, Michigan and our intern here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home.  As part of her internship she is writing a weekly column titled “Out of the Zoo.”  It focuses on life as...

Historian Richard White on the Gilded Age

John Fea   |  February 15, 2018

Over at Readers Almanac, the blog of the Library of America, Stanford historian Richard White answers a few questions about his recent book, The Republic for Which it Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. Here is...

Historian Richard White on “Home”

John Fea   |  September 19, 2017

Yesterday we posted a link to a History News Network interview with Stanford historian Richard White. Today, White is back with a piece at Smithsonian.com on the idea of “home” in America’s Gilded Age. Here is a taste: When reduced to...

What is More Important: Quality Consumer Goods or Social Equality?

John Fea   |  April 22, 2017

The obvious answer is quality consumer goods. How could we live without them? At least this is how Pennsylvania steel magnate Andrew Carnegie would have answered the question posed in the title of my post. Yesterday  in my Pennsylvania History class...

The Author’s Corner with Timothy E.W. Gloege

John Fea   |  June 1, 2015

Timothy Gloege is a historian and independent scholar based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This interview is based on his new book, Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism (University of North Carolina Press, April 2015). JF: What led...

On Writing a History of the American Bible Society–Update #47

John Fea   |  August 13, 2014

Immigrants and ABS agents at Ellis Island Want to get some context for this post? Click here.I am back at the American Bible Society archives in New York City. Yesterday was a travel day, but I did manage to get some...

Richard White: “Americans Didn’t Always Yearn for Riches”

John Fea   |  February 12, 2013

But, according to Credit Fix, all of this changed in the Gilded Age when Americans began to think of the American dream “not as competency but rather as the accumulation of great wealth.” The change had a lot to do...

Tim Lacy on Jackson Lears’s “Rebirth of a Nation”

John Fea   |  December 28, 2012

Jackson Lears’s Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America has been on my reading list for a couple of years now.  Tim Lacy’s recent reflection on the book at U.S. Intellectual History has convinced me to bring it...

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