Sam Redman is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This interview is based on his new book, The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience (NYU Press, 2022)....
institutional histories
“Becoming Grace”
As some of you know, I have been writing an institutional history. This kind of history is not easy to write. Readers like to read about people’s lives, wars, politics, etc…, but not many folks get excited reading about an...
Writing Institutional History
Burkholder and Norris have written a forthcoming history of Grace College One of the panels I missed (due to a scheduling conflict) at the recent Conference on Faith and History meeting in Malibu was focused on writing institutional history. It...
This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture”
I have been a fan of James H. Moorhead’s work since I read his American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War as a graduate student. As the Mary McIntosh Bridge Professor of Church History at Princeton Theological Seminary and...