By Paul Horton While the fundamentalist and evangelical right seems to have monopolized the national discourse surrounding religion and politics today, most Americans seem to have little grasp of a time in American history when religion identified with what could be called social reform. Much of the impulse to …
By Paul Horton. While the Renaissance has been presented as a European phenomenon, historians have recently begun to recognize the ways that other parts of the world participated in the intellectual and artistic achievements of those times. How can we challenge students to investigate what was happening beyond …
By Paul Horton. No question is more puzzling to teachers of World or Global History than, when did the modern world begin? We inherited this question from the hand-me-down versions of Western Civilization and European history that served as the foundations for World History as it gradually evolved away from the …
By Paul Horton. In the introduction to his widely used introductory text, The Scientific Revolution, Steven Shapin, a professor of the History of Science at Harvard, caused quite a stir in mid 1990s academic and public circles when he provocatively proclaimed that “[t]here was no such thing as the Scientific …
By Paul Horton. This is the fourth in a series. Here are the prior posts: Part 1: Historians and the “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy Part 2: The Confederate “Lost Cause” and Southern Women Part 3: Confederate Monuments and Southern Memory: The Case of One Confederate General When Alabama …
By Paul Horton. Part 1: Historians and the “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy Part 2: The Confederate “Lost Cause” and Southern Women Part 4: Where “Southern Heritage” Falls Short As calls are made to remove monuments devoted to those who fought against the Union during the Civil …
By Paul Horton. Part 1: Historians and the “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy Part 3: Confederate Monuments and Southern Memory: The Case of One Confederate General Part 4: Where “Southern Heritage” Falls Short Part Two: The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and other groups played a …
By Paul Horton. Part 2: The Confederate “Lost Cause” and Southern Women: Strengthening the Bonds of Patriarchy as a Path to Power Part 3: Confederate Monuments and Southern Memory: The Case of One Confederate General Part 4: Where “Southern Heritage” Falls Short Part 1: In town squares and …
