Middlekauff is best known as the author of The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. It was the first book to appear in the Oxford History of the United States series, which also includes James McPherson’s Battle Cry for Freedom: […]
obituaries
John Polkinghorne, RIP
A couple weeks ago I was part of a Messiah University Zoom event in which several faculty members shared their spiritual pilgrimages. (Annie Thorn of “Out of the Zoo” fame organized the event). One of my co-panelists was Ted Davis, […]
Sarah Obama, RIP
If you are like me and fell in love with “Granny” reading Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father, this is sad news. Here is CBS: Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former President Obama’s Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials […]
David Edwin Harrell, historian of Pentecostalism, has died
Most American historians know Harrell for his biographies of Oral Roberts and Pat Robertson. Here is an obituary of the longtime Auburn University professor: Retired Auburn University history professor David Edwin Harrell, who wrote biographies of TV evangelists Pat Robertson […]
Rush Limbaugh dies
Here are the titles and/or subtitles of some of his obituaries: NBC News: “The Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree outraged critics with his long history of sexist, homophobic and racist remarks.” Washington Post: “Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio provocateur and cultural […]
Melvin Banks, RIP
Here is a taste of Daniel Silliman’s obituary of a major player in twentieth-century evangelicalism. I am guessing most white evangelicals have never heard of him: Melvin E. Banks, founder of the largest black Christian publishing house in the United […]