Thursday, August 04, 2016

The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism

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Mark R. Stoll,  Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism . New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp....
Monday, July 04, 2016

Race and Civil Rights in 20th-Century U.S. History

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If you're interested in exploring how race and civil rights played out in America during the last 100 years, you could hardly find thr...
Friday, June 03, 2016

Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms: The Religion of 16th-Century Radical Rednecks

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Ginzburg, Carlo.  The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller . Translated by John and Anne Tedeschi. Baltimore: Jo...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Ussama Makdisi on a Nineteenth-Century Protestant Mission to the Middle East

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In 2008, Ussama Makdisi published his award-winning title, Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Mid...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016

An Intellectual History of American Evangelicalism since 1945

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Worthen, Molly. Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism . New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. In  The ...
Saturday, April 02, 2016

U.S. Presidents of the Twentieth Century

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Interested in U.S. Presidents of the Twentieth Century? This list of seven books includes some of the better works that I have sampled so fa...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Easter 2016

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Easter Sunday lunch at Aspen Creek in Amarillo
Friday, March 25, 2016

Two Classic Articles by Historian E. P. Thompson

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Thompson, E. P. “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism.” Past & Present 38 (December 1967): 56-97. With apologies to Steph...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Production or Consumption: Which Comes First?

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Jan de Vries,  The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present . New York: Cambridge University...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Seeing Through Fifteenth-Century Eyes

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Michael Baxandall,  Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style . Oxford: Claren...
Monday, March 14, 2016

The Vietnam War: Three Important Titles

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Interested in the Vietnam War? Here's a short list of books you might try. Considering that they are only three books, these represen...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

From the Last Days of David to the Beginning of Exile: A Simple Introduction to the Book(s) of Kings

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1 and 2 Kings in modern editions of the Bible originally formed a single book in the Hebrew Bible. In the Septuagint , the ancient Greek t...