I was recently a guest on Brian Kaylor’s podcast “Dangerous Dogma.” The podcast is sponsored by Word & Way, a Christian magazine edited by Brian Kaylor. Learn more here. Listen: Brian and I were recently featured on a CBS mini-documentary […]
interviews
C-SPAN Interview with Ben Howe
Several readers have been asking if this interview is online. You can watch it here.
Skype Interview Nightmares
From Stephanie Hull of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation: One candidate allowed her hamster to run loose in her home. During her interview, it ran up the back of her shirt and popped out on her shoulder, next to […]
*Believe Me* Interview with Jana Riess of Religion News Service
I can’t thank Jana Riess enough for her encouragement, friendship, and support of my work. As some of you know, she was the editor of my Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction. We had a nice little […]
“10 Questions” on *Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump*
Kurt Manwaring is a freelance writer who runs a wonderful author-interview series at this website titled “Ten Questions.” I encourage you to follow him and bookmark his site. I recently participated in Ten Questions as the author of Believe Me: The […]
How to Interview for a Job in a History Department at a Teaching College
A few years ago I wrote this piece at Inside Higher Ed. Perhaps some of my thoughts here might prove useful to graduate students and others preparing for interviews at the upcoming American Historical Association meeting in Atlanta. Here is a […]
The Author’s Corner with Brian Phillips Murphy
Brian Murphy is Associate Professor of Early American History at Baruch College. This interview is based on his new book, Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, May 2015). JF: What led you to write Building […]
The Author’s Corner with Michael J. McVicar
Michael McVicar is Assistant Professor of American Religious History at Florida State University. This interview is based on his new book, Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism (The University of North Carolina Press, April 2015). JF: What led you to […]
The Author’s Corner with Timothy E.W. Gloege
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 […]
The Author’s Corner with David Sehat
David Sehat is Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University. This interview is based on his new book, The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible (Simon & Schuster, May 2015). JF: What led you to write The Jefferson […]
The Author’s Corner with Calvin Schermerhorn
Calvin Schermerhorn is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University. This interview is based on his new book The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 (Yale University Press, April 2015). JF: What led you to write The Business […]
The Author’s Corner with James L. Huston
James Huston is Associate Professor of History at Oklahoma State University. This interview is based on his new book, The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agricultural and Sectional Antagonism in North America (LSU Press, May 2015). JF: What […]
The Author’s Corner with Andrew Hartman
Andrew Hartman is Associate Professor of History at Illinois State University. This interview is based on his new book, A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (University of Chicago Press, April 2015). JF: What led you to […]
The Author’s Corner with John Ferling
John Ferling is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of West Georgia. This interview is based on his new book, Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It (Bloomsbury Press, May 2015). JFea: What led you to write Whirlwind: The American Revolution and […]
The Author’s Corner with Colleen A. Vasconcellos
Colleen Vasconcellos is Associate Professor of Atlantic History at University of West Georgia. This interview is based on her new book, Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788–1838 (University of Georgia Press, May 2015). JF: What led you to write Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition […]
The Author’s Corner with Carol Berkin
Carol Berkin is residential Professor of History at Baruch College and a member of the history faculty of the Graduate Center of CUNY, Emerita. This interview is based on her new book, The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America’s Liberties (Simon […]
The Author’s Corner with Gregory P. Downs
Greg Downs is Associate Professor of History and Doctoral Faculty at The City College of New York. This interview is based on his new book, After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War (Harvard University Press, April 2015). JF: What […]
The Author’s Corner with Gary Scott Smith
Gary Smith is Chair and Professor of History at Grove City College. This interview is based on his new book, Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American Presidents (Oxford University Press, March 2015). JF: What led you to write Religion […]
Virtual Office Hours: Spring 2015 – Episode 12
Messiah College : A New Kind of History DepartmentFeaturing Messiah Student Jonathan Werthmuller [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MNSjNX7aTo] Be sure to check the Virtual Office Hours channel for the Spring 2015 Blooper Reel coming this week!
The Author’s Corner with William A. Mirola
William Mirola is Professor of Sociology and Presiding Officer of the faculty at Marian University. This interview is based on his new book, Redeeming Time: Protestantism and Chicago’s Eight-Hour Movement (University of Illinois Press, 2014). JF: What led you to write Redeeming Time: Protestantism and […]