Frankly Speaking

Meta Chestnutt, c. 1888 Meta Chestnutt’s first night in Oklahoma was not what she had imagined it would be. Shivering in her bed during ...

Balmer, Randall. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America . 25th Anniversary Edition . New York: ...

Back in June and July of 2014, I put up  a couple of posts  that tell just a bit about the history of the South Thornton Church of Christ in...

The previous post described how "Whig-Protestant" historians of the English Reformation agreed that Protestantism took hold in En...

In the previous post on this topic, we introduced the old Whig-Protestant reading of the English Reformation, some version of which, reachi...

With Michele at Larkin Davis Johnson's graduation from Texas Tech School of Law last Saturday, May 16th. We're all so proud! ...

Cleves, Rachel Hope. Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America . New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Charity ...

Sometime in late 2016, I hope to take (and pass!) my comprehensive exams in European History. So, during the past few months, I’ve tried to ...

Woodall, Jonathan Franklin. " The Post-Termination Rhetoric of the American Restoration Movment."  PhD diss., University of Memphi...

I spent Thursday, March 19, 2015 in the Western History Collections, which is a part of the library system at the University of Oklahoma. I...

I was in the archive at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City this Monday through Wednesday, March 16-18. What a great place to do r...

Dull, C. J., “Unless Authorized to Act: A Suggestion for the Timing Issue in the Civil War Hypothesis Concerning the First Division in the S...