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James Kloppenberg

Historians as “Columbos of Our Cultural Life”

John Fea   |  August 29, 2017

Paul Croce is Professor of History and American Studies at Stetson University.  In his recent piece at Huffington Post he compares historians to Peter Falk’s famous television character Columbo. Here is a taste: Historians can become like the Columbos of our...

Plenary Sessions Announced for the 2017 Conference of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History in Dallas

John Fea   |  April 13, 2017

The folks at the Society for U.S. Intellectual History have been putting together some great annual conferences of late.  The 2017 meeting in Dallas is shaping up to be a real intellectual history-fest. I was recently asked to participate in...

History and the Tragic Sense of Our Fallenness

John Fea   |  December 24, 2015

I wish I had more time to engage with Peter Wirzbicki‘s excellent piece on historians and hope.  It is unfortunate that this was posted so close to Christmas because it is worth a full read.  Andrew Hartman agrees with me:...

James Kloppenberg on Barack Obama and Progressive Christianity

John Fea   |  April 30, 2014

Check out Tiffany Stanley‘s interview with Harvard intellectual historian James Kloppenberg.   Stanley is the managing editor of Religion & Politics, a web magazine published by the Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.  Kloppenberg is...

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