Last night in Washington D.C., University of Chicago philosopher delivered the 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecture. Several Messiah College students and faculty were in attendance. I did some delayed tweeting of the talk last night @johnfea1. I...
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Heading to Gordon College
On Monday afternoon I will be at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts to deliver the 2017 Franz Lecture. My lecture is titled “Why Study History?” The lecture is scheduled for 4:00 in Ken Olson Science Center on campus. Learn more...
Another Defense of the Lecture
Miya Tokumitsu, an art historian at the University of Melbourne, is the latest academic to defend the virtues of the lecture in an age when “lab-and project-based learning…flipped classrooms and online instruction” are gaining in popularity. Tokumitsu, in a recent...
Pulitzer-Prize Winner Edward Larson at Messiah College
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Ed Larson of Pepperdine University School of Law will deliver a lecture entitled “The Election of 1800 & the Birth Partisan Presidential Politics” on Monday, February 27, 2017. The lecture is free and open to the public. ...
On the Road in September and October 2016
It’s going to be a busy couple of months: September 21: I’ll be talking about the revised edition of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? on “The Ride Home with John & Kathy on WORD-FM Pittsburgh September 22: I’ll be...
At Lincoln Memorial University
Next week (Sept. 22) I am making my first visit to Harrogate, TN. I will be delivering the Kincaid Lecture at Lincoln Memorial University. My lecture is titled: “The Bible in the Age of Lincoln: The American Bible Society and...
The Spring 2016 Lecture Series at the David Library of the American Revolution
The David Library of the America Revolution has announced its Spring Lecture Series, “Fighting and Fulfilling the American Revolution.” Here is what you can expect: On Wednesday, February 24 at 7:30 PM with “A Sea Change: Naval Warfare in the American...
Another Defense of Molly Worthen’s Article on Lecturing
This comes from Daniel P. Franke, a visiting history instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Franke supports Worthen’s defense of the lecture and add his own insights.Here is a taste of his post at The Winds...
Molly Worthen Defends the Lecture
Is the lecture dead? Not according to Molly Worthen, the University of North Carolina history professor and the author of Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. In today’s New York Times she defends the lecture. Here is...
Lecture at Penn State-New Kensington
On Thursday I will be giving a lecture on religion and the American founding and meeting with a few history classes at Penn State-New Kensington (greater Pittsburgh area). Thanks to John Craig Hammond of the History Department at PSU-New Kensington...
Charles Coil Lectures at Heritage Christian University
I am honored to be delivering the 6th Annual Charles Coil Colloquium at Heritage Christian University on Friday. My topic will be “Religion and the American Founding.” If you live in the Muscle Shoals region feel free to stop by. Here...
George Marsden on British Colonial Collegiate Education, Circa 1764
At Brown University. Great stuff at the beginning of the lecture on the historical imagination. And Gordon Wood is in the audience! I think he would like Marsden’s opening comments. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OwluiBp7c8]
Mark Noll on the “Challenges for Christian Learning”
Noll lecture at Westmont College. And a nice introduction by Rick Pointer. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SktmnZKUOnI]...
The David Library of the American Revolution Releases Its Spring 2015 Slate of Programs
…And it is a star-studded lineup: With the exception of Richard K. Beeman’s lecture on April 22nd, which will be held at Bucks County Community College, all events will take place in the Feinstone Conference Center at the David Library...
Lecture: New Jersey’s Presbyterian Rebellion
This came across the New Jersey history listserv today. I hope to see some of you in Union next month.–JF November 21 and 22, 2014 Kean University, Union, NJ Celebrated Author of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical...
Peter Onuf on MOOCs
Peter Onuf Forget about Hobby Lobby or the U.S. loss to Belgium in the World Cup. It looks like recently retired University of Virginia historian Peter Onuf has reopened the MOOC debate. Here is the background:Yesterday morning Michael Blaakman of...
Quote of the Day
“Overall, this professor had me convinced in his short lecture that America was without a doubt founded as a Christian nation.” Source: Messiah College education major in an extra-credit reflection paper on my 2014 Religion and Society Lecture....
David Swartz at Messiah College: TONIGHT
If you are in the south-central Pennsylvania area tonight stop by Messiah College to hear Asbury University historian David Swartz deliver the Schrag Lecture, an annual lecture on Anabaptism sponsored by the Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist, and Wesleyan Studies. Readers of The Way of Improvement...
Messiah College Religion and Society Lecture or What It is Like to Give a Visiting Lecture Series at Your Home Institution
As you may recall from previous posts, I was the first Messiah College professor to deliver the Messiah College Religion and Society Lectures. I am honored to be preceded in the lectureship by the likes of Jimmy Carter, Martin Marty,...
Lectures, Group Work. and the Teaching of History
Is the lecture dead? Should history professors employ more group work in their classes? A small discussion on these related topics has been raging through the history blogosphere. If you want to get up to speed, check our Chris Gehrz’s...