Frankly Speaking

This post is my answer to a broad question: How and why did the relationship between American citizens and the federal government change be...

The last day or two, I've been spending time with the federal census of 1880. It's amazing. This was the first census following th...

In spite of minimal help from congregations or from the Disciples' American Christian Missionary Society, by the end of 1859, James Trot...

In January 1906, after just one semester at the helm, C. Q. Barton added his name to the growing list of former presidents of Panhandle Chri...

Note: This post picks up a series I began with A Brief History of Hereford College (1) . As they planned for the future college, members o...

The Christian colleges at Lockney and Hereford, Texas began with worthy goals and high hopes. If nothing else, the structures they built, re...

In the summer of 1914, evangelist W. F. Ledlow held what was then called a "protracted meeting" (an extended series of sermons) at...

At the end of the school year in the spring of 1911, James L. German resigned as president of Lockney Christian College. From that time on, ...

By the time he came to Lockney, not yet thirty years old, German had already traveled widely and established a strong record of academics an...

The summer of 1904 must have been an exciting time in Lockney, Texas. Several issues of the Firm Foundation carried announcements that Lock...

Following five years of successful work as president of Lockney Christian College, G.H.P. Showalter resigned and moved to Bethel, New Mexico...

At least two factors led to the growth of Lockney Christian College during its first few years. In 1895, a local public school closed and mo...