I wanted to get these tweets on record here at the blog. Also, some readers of the blog are not Twitter. I’m not going to go into background, but I encourage you to get up to speed here. Again, I...
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...
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:...
I often get asked something like this: “Why do you waste your time writing about Trump’s court evangelicals?” Or angrier people say this to me: “Give it up. You have Trump derangement syndrome. Start writing about something else.” I get […]
As Jill Lepore writes in her recent piece at The Washington Post, several politicians, pundits, and commentators are calling for a truth and reconciliation commission to deal with Trump and his supporters after the president leaves office. Here is Lepore:...
Here is a taste of the Yale historian‘s recent piece at The Washington Post: Historians have been busy in recent months, and for good reason. Almost every day brings a stream of political questions from all quarters: Has this happened...
Historian David Swartz does not think so. Here is Swartz at The Anxious Bench: White evangelicals are doubling down on President Donald Trump. Their choices in 2016—Trump or Clinton—may have been distasteful to them then. But in 2019, their taste for...
Max Boot is the Jeanne Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security at the Council on Foreign Relations and a global affairs analyst for CNN. He is probably best known these days as an anti-Trump crusader. Boot is also the latest...
Last week The Chronicle of Higher Education published an interview with Harvard University historian Jill Lepore. We posted about it here. During the course of the interview, Lepore said: The academy is largely itself responsible for its own peril. The retreat...
If you don’t know about Yoni Appelbaum, he is the ideas editor at The Atlantic. He was also our guest on episode 3 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. In this video, Appelbaum chats with John Dichtl of the...
Baylor University historian Barry Hankins tells his story: “I was born to be a point guard; but not a very good one.” I wish I had written that line. It certainly sums up my college basketball career. But as you...
This is a great piece on the noted American historian. A taste of Gary Robertson’s article at Richmond Magazine: In a life that continues to be marked by leadership, accolades and influence, Ed Ayers — the son of a Tennessee used-car...
Over at History News Network, Erik Moshe continues his series of interviews with historians . This time his subject is Columbia University historian Eric Foner. Here is a taste: What is your favorite history-related saying? Have you come up with...
Over at History News Network, Erik Moshe interviews Gettysburg College historian Allen Guelzo. Here are Moshe’s questions: What books are you reading now? What is your favorite history book? Why did you choose history as your career? What qualities do...
In the last few days, several folks have asked me why I get so “bent out of shape” about the likes of David Barton and the “court evangelicals.” One noted American religious historian regularly implies on Twitter and in blog...
Today we published two posts on a small debate raging over how historians should engage in public discourse. After Moshik Temkin published a piece at The New York Times titled “Historians Should Not Be Pundits,” Julian Zelizer and Morton Keller...
Check out Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez‘s piece at The Chronicle of Higher Education on historians, archivists, and scholars who are taking notes, keeping journals, tweeting, and blogging about the age of Trump. As part of the story Fernanda Zamudio interviewed Rebecca Erbelding of...
Check out Graham Vyse’s piece at The New Republic in which he suggests that Donald Trump is radicalizing American historians. I am not sure if “radicalizing” is the right word here. Historians have been radicalized for a long time. The...
Scott Culpepper teaches history at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. In a guest post at The Anxious Bench he exhorts Christian scholars to courageously pursue their vocations in the age of Trump. It is a wonderful piece. Here is...
Over at The Anxious Bench, Chris Gehrz responds to Jason Steinhauer‘s recent piece for Inside Higher Ed about how history can contribute to public life. Here is a taste of Gehrz’s piece: I’m glad that more and more of us seem to...
