The end of the semester has created a break to post some photos from recent events in the history department. Here in this first installment are a couple of photos of our graduating seniors at the Senior Dinner. Congrats, seniors! Clio Award winners for 2012 were (left to right) Amanda Mylin, Natalie Burack, and [...]
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Senior Dinner 2012
Posted in Clio Award, Congratulations, Events, Student Activities on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Honors Presentations
Posted in Congratulations, Events, Honors Presentations, Public Lectures and Symposia, Student Activities, Student Research on April 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to our three seniors who gave superb honors presentations this week. We managed to catch a few pictures of the presenters in action. Amanda Mylin begins her talk on “Reading the Leaves: Tea and American Colonial Identity, 1765-1775” Katie Garland introduces the crowd to the face of ambition and providence in her [...]
Fea’s Christian Nation book nominated for George Washington Book Prize
Posted in Congratulations, John Fea on March 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If you have not heard the good news, Professor Fea’s book, Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press 2011), has been nominated for the prestigious George Washington Book Prize. As Washington College notes in the press release announcing the nominations: Since his birth 280 years ago today, George [...]
Fea’s Book as Outstanding Academic Title
Posted in American History, Congratulations, John Fea on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to Professor John Fea for the continuing success of his book, Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press 2011). The American Library Association selected his book for their list of “Outstanding Academic Titles” in their publication Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. The works selected for “Outstanding [...]
History Majors win Library Research Grants
Posted in Congratulations, Student Activities, Student Research on November 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to history majors Natalie Burack and Katie Garland for winning Murray Library Research Grants to support research related to their senior projects! Natalie was awarded funds to conduct research at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University) for a project called "Poppy Cannon: An Examination of Food & Culture in the [...]
*Confessing History* wins recognition
Posted in Congratulations, Faculty Activities, Jim LaGrand, John Fea, Vocation on November 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Congratulations to Dr. John Fea for receiving national recognition of his edited work Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation (The University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). Confessing History was chosen last week as a finalist for the Lilly Fellows Programs in Humanities and Arts Book Award, which seeks to award imaginative [...]
Boyer Scholars
Posted in Congratulations, Student Activities on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Boyer Center at Messiah College has just released its list of Boyer fellows for 2011-2012. Two of our (senior) history majors, Natalie Burack and Katie Garland, are among the fellows. Congrats to both of them for this opportunity!
Immersed in Early American Life — a piece on Katie Garland
Posted in American History, Congratulations, Deerfield Dispatch, Internships, Student Activities on August 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you missed the Facebook post on this, history major Katie Garland was featured last week on Messiah’s homepage in her role in the Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program. Here’s the opening text to the article: “What started as childhood affection for historical fiction—particularly Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House”—has grown into a passion for American [...]
History Department Celebrates Senior Success
Posted in Clio Award, Congratulations, Events, Student Activities on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Many history department events have occurred over the last few weeks of the semester that we will report on in the next week. Our big event this week was the Senior Dinner held to celebrate the college careers and achievements of our graduating seniors. Nineteen of our graduates came together on Monday for dinner with [...]
Alex Lovelace on General Patton
Posted in American History, Congratulations, Jim LaGrand, Student Research on May 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The senior history honors thesis presentations have begun! On Friday, Alex Lovelace entertained the audience with a talk on George S. Patton Jr: ”Target of the Press: The Wartime Relationship between Patton and the Media.” Alex has been thinking about the Patton question (“What was he really like? Why was he so successful in war?”) [...]
