Thursday, September 24, 2015

A Glimpse of What Historians Actually Do

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Farge, Arlette. The Allure of the Archives . Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. First publis...
Monday, September 07, 2015

Who Was a Martyr?

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Bowersock, G. W. Martyrdom and Rome . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. This book began as the series of Wiles Lectures deli...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

"Holy Whine" at Pulpit Rock: Connecticut Connections to the Bible-Belt South

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Born in Boston in 1706, Shubal Stearns lies buried more than 600 miles to the south and west, in the little town of Staley, North Carolin...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Who's Who? Identity and Peasant Life in Early Modern Europe

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Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Return of Martin Guerre . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. In this book, Natalie Zemon Davis rete...
Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Fourth of July, 2015 at the Hernandez Wedding

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Me and Michele
Monday, June 29, 2015

The Standard of King Immanuel: Meta Chestnutt's Mission to Indian Territory

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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 ...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Religious Travelogue at its Best: American Evangelicalism in Recent Times

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Balmer, Randall. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America . 25th Anniversary Edition . New York: ...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Demographic Change in Clay County Arkansas and Numerical Decline in the South Thornton Church of Christ, Piggott

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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...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

The Historiography of the English Reformation (Part 3)

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The previous post described how "Whig-Protestant" historians of the English Reformation agreed that Protestantism took hold in En...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

The Historiography of the English Reformation (Part 2)

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In the previous post on this topic, we introduced the old Whig-Protestant reading of the English Reformation, some version of which, reachi...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

See Larkin Graduate!

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With Michele at Larkin Davis Johnson's graduation from Texas Tech School of Law last Saturday, May 16th. We're all so proud! ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

A Same-Sex "Marriage" in Early America

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