Saturday, March 25, 2017

The Non-Class, One Cup Churches of Christ

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Ronny F. Wade, The Sun Will Shine Again, Someday . Springfield, MO: 1986. xvi + 208 pp. The subtitle of this book says it all: “A histo...
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Friday, March 10, 2017

Tulia, Texas Wildfires, February 28, 2017

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On Tuesday, February 28, 2017, wildfire broke out west of Tulia, Texas. Aided by parched fields and raging winds that were sometimes gusting...
Thursday, January 05, 2017

Demons, Baseball, Skynyrd and More! My Sweet Sixteen Books of 2016

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For someone pursuing a doctorate in History, I really didn't do that much reading last year. Much of the time I was skimming books by t...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Demon Possession in Context: Giovanni Levi's Microhistory of a Seventeenth-Century Exorcist

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Giovanni Levi, Inheriting Power: The Story of an Exorcist , translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp....
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...