Accounts of scholars from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries often describe the ill effects studying had on their health. Was studying actually unhealthy, or was that a trope?
Announcing a new blog, Religion in America, and describing how I built the site using WordPress.
A paper examining the relationship between the Reformation-era confessions of faith and the ancient creeds.
I’ve seldom found a podcast that I’ve listened to more than once, but these four podcasts I listen to regularly. All feature fascinating discussions, and … Read this post →
In many places, I have seen monuments with lists of soldiers. Many are small-town memorials, like those in Groton, Massachusetts, that list all the … Read this post →
In studying the seventeenth-century, I have twice encountered a curious eschatology. The eschatology states that the gospel will move westward around the globe until it … Read this post →
D. L. Moody receives ambivalent treatment from conservative Christians. Some treat him with a reverence just short of hagiography for his work as an evangelist, … Read this post →
Top tens are common fare for blog posts, but I’ve never written one. The following is a top ten list of the textbooks that I’ve … Read this post →
by Ben Jonson
If, my religion safe, I durst embrace
That stranger doctrine of Pythagoras,
I should believe, the soul of Tacitus
In thee, most weighty Savile lived to … Read this post →
For the class Philosophy of History, I can choose what to do for my graduate project. I’ve narrowed my choices to two: an annotated bibliography … Read this post →
For the class Forces in American History, one of our projects was to review website about a historical topic. The following are brief reviews of … Read this post →
This weekend I signed up to write two articles for The Encyclopedia of American Veterans, to be published by Greenwood Press. I’m writing about Theodore … Read this post →
This semester I have three main writing projects. My master’s thesis, which analyzes the newspaper debate over the Hartford Convention, is my most important work. … Read this post →
As part of becoming a historian, I’m trying to keep up with the most important historical journals. Subscribing to each of those journals is prohibitively … Read this post →
Next semester Jonathan Newell and I will be teaching a TOP class on the Revolutionary War in South Carolina. TOP classes are continuing education classes … Read this post →
I recently read Christianity through the Centuries by Earle E. Cairns. It is a good introduction to the history of Christianity. Cairns was a professor … Read this post →