Frankly Speaking

This post is my fourth and final installment in a series designed to size up what modern historians have said about the English Reformation....

Peter Burke, “How To Be a Counter-Reformation Saint,” in Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800 , edited by Kaspar von Greyer...

Betty Osborne died two years ago today. The following is an excerpt from the funeral message.  . . . The author of Ecclesiastes reminds ...

Welter, Barbara. "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860." American Quarterly 18, no. 2, pt. 1 (Summer 1966): 151-74. In 1963, B...

So Michele, Ben, and I drove over to Altus, Oklahoma on Thursday, the 24th, so glad to see my folks, my sisters and their families. We had ...

Hall, David D. A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Th...

Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. This book ex...

So, earlier today I was watching Dan Rather interview the great Frankie Valli. Of course, what stood out to me was something I was personall...

Oriard, Michael.  Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Ha...

Okay, so here's my working list of titles for Twentieth Century U.S. History. I got my start on this project in a course I took at Tex...

McLaurin, Melton. Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South . 2nd edition. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. This ...

Reading the processus document for Saint Clare of Assisi, I happened upon one of the more interesting miracle stories I've ever read. A...