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January 2025

January 02, 2025

Jimmy Carter and the Great Presidency That Never Was

In the wave of obituaries for Jimmy Carter, the common theme is that as president,...

May 2023

May 04, 2023

The Wars After The War: Just What Did End In 1945?

I wrote recently about the year 1453, which marked the Fall of Constantinople, and therefore...

April 2023

April 07, 2023

Derry Girls, Nostalgia, and the 1990s

This week my husband and I watched the last episode of Derry Girls. I had...

January 2023

January 18, 2023

Billy Graham in Europe: An Interview with Uta Balbier

Today, Europe is a predominantly secular continent, but that is not how American evangelicals perceived...

June 2022

June 30, 2022

From the Russian Empire to the Cold War, and Back Again

I recently reread a text that I already know well, but encountered it once again...

March 2022

March 29, 2022

The Evangelical Affinity for Ukraine

What do evangelicals in the U.S. think about the Russian invasion of Ukraine? You might...

October 2021

October 01, 2021

The Cold War Was My Life

It’s imminent. My Global History of the Cold War 1945-1991 will be out from Palgrave...

September 2021

September 10, 2021

Teaching the Cold War Through Songs and Music

I have been posting about the Cold War as a subject for writing and especially...

September 03, 2021

The Other September 11

Around the world, the stunning violence of September 11 cast a long shadow over the...

August 2021

August 30, 2021

Ed Murrow’s Water Bottle, Or How Not To Use Films In Teaching History

In 2005, George Clooney starred in Good Night, and Good Luck, a decent film about...

August 27, 2021

Teaching the Cold War: Some Alternative Films To Show

I have been posting about my forthcoming book on The Global History of the Cold...

August 13, 2021

Writing The Cold War: What Surprised Me – Continued

I have described my forthcoming book on The Global History of the Cold War, and...

August 03, 2021

The Olympics: Competition as Striving Together

Chris found it easy to forget that competition derives from a Latin term for "striving...

August 02, 2021

Teaching the Cold War: Was There Really a Red Scare?

I have been posting about my forthcoming book on the Global History of the Cold...

July 2021

July 30, 2021

Writing the Cold War: Globalizing the Eve of Destruction

I have been writing a book called The Global History of the Cold War, which...

July 16, 2021

The Other 1960s: Remembering the Red Future

As usual, I have a couple of writing projects on the go at any given...

March 2021

March 12, 2021

Decline, Fall, Victory, and Other Cold War Myths

How you phrase a question goes a long way to determining the answer. That comment...

March 03, 2021

Reading Women Authors on the History of Science

I wrote last month about my new course on the United States in Global Perspective...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

When Was the Cold War?

The labels and limits we apply to historical periods do much to shape how we...

May 2020

May 13, 2020

Non-Religious Turning Points in Religious History: The 20th Century

As our series of non-religious turning points in religious history continues into the 20th century,...

May 08, 2020

The Changing Meaning of V-E Day

How do we remember World War II, on this 75th anniversary of V-E Day? If...

April 2020

April 22, 2020

How the Liberal Arts Help Christians See War More Clearly

During a hard week for his university, Chris thinks ahead to how two of his...

June 2019

June 03, 2019

Memories of “Eastern Europe”

Almost exactly 30 years ago in June of 1989, I traveled to Europe for the...

September 2017

September 19, 2017

The Two Best Historical Dramas on TV

Why The Americans and Outlander may be the best historical dramas on the small or...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

The Spiritual Spirit of St. Louis

The 1957 film version of Charles Lindbergh's memoir, Spirit of St. Louis, dispenses with much...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Soviets and Sassenachs: My Two Favorite Historical TV Series

In the first two posts in this series, I've suggested that historical movies — and TV...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Religion behind the Iron Curtain

Although one could find fuller treatments of the subject elsewhere, I was very intrigued by...

January 24, 2013

Anne Applebaum’s The Iron Curtain

Oftentimes the most powerful accounts of "religious history" are found in books addressing much broader...