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October 2015

October 21, 2015

How to Start a Writing Group

My writing group just celebrated our 5th anniversary. Although our idea for the group was...

September 2015

September 01, 2015

How to Write an Excellent Statement of Purpose for Graduate Applications

Fall is the time for students to put together their applications for graduate school. Many...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Publishing without Perishing

Several of my co-bloggers have commented on aspects of dissertation writing and academic publishing. Perhaps...

August 19, 2015

“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” as Secular Hymnody

In 1345, on a cold Tuesday night just before Easter, a miracle happened in Amsterdam....

July 2015

July 21, 2015

Professors and the New Public Sphere

I have been reading Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. This...

July 14, 2015

What Are The Most “Important” Topics in American History?

I recently spoke at the annual conference of the Association of Classical and Christian Schools,...

April 2015

April 14, 2015

Should You Pursue a Ph.D.?

I routinely get questions from undergraduate and Master's students, at Baylor and elsewhere, about applying...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Gordon Wood on Bernard Bailyn

When the great American historian Gordon Wood has a long-form essay on the equally-great Bernard...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

Religious History at the AHA

I wasn’t able to attend the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New...

November 2014

November 11, 2014

Why a Conference Paper is Usually Just a Conference Paper

[Today's guest post is from my Baylor history colleague Dr. Beth Allison Barr. You can...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

Serendipity in the Stacks: A Case against Bookless Libraries

Several months ago Florida Polytechnic University opened a brand-new library. Its architecture, designed by Santiago...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Advice for the Dismal Academic Job Market

Over at Slate, Rebecca Schuman imagines an awkward scenario from a family gathering, which includes a newly-minted...

September 10, 2014

Re-envisioning Our Public: The Conference on Faith and History 2014

For decades, committed evangelicals such as Richard Pierard, Robert Linder, George Marsden, Mark Noll, Nathan...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

Choosing a research topic

Philip Jenkins' recent post on choosing a subject for a book or research project is...

April 2014

April 09, 2014

History Surprises

Those who profess to dislike history may as well profess to dislike people. ...

April 01, 2014

The Art of the Book Review

Writers who publish books will soon find their books subjected to reviews. Although good book...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

George Marsden and the Gift of Clear Writing

Over at The Gospel Coalition, I recently reviewed The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s...

August 2013

August 08, 2013

What’s Present is Prologue to the Past

Jennifer Schuessler at the New York Times introduces cutting-edge historical scholarship to the masses. Last...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

The Historical Genius of Edmund Morgan

Last week we lost one of the titans of American history writing, Yale's Edmund Morgan....

July 03, 2013

The Historian’s Vocation in the Age of Information, Part 2*

“You and your d**n cards. How do you keep track of them all?” queries...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

The Historian’s Vocation in the Age of Information, Part 1*

Over the past two decades, the exponential advance of information-sharing and communication-oriented technology transformed and...

April 2013

April 01, 2013

What is “Christian History”?

Over at Religion in American History, Mark Edwards has opened a fascinating discussion about the...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

Unsecularize the Academy?

This morning, I began reading Brad Gregory's magisterial The Unintended Reformation: How A Religious Revolution...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

Engaging the Past, Engaging History

I was going to write about the GOP Convention today, but I found the following...

August 08, 2012

Should Historians Cast Judgment on the Past?

As a history professor I often find myself in conversations with students and fellow faculty...