For the fourth time in the last year, an essay appearing in Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society has been highlighted in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Magazine and Journal Reader section. The essay, written by Margaret P. Battin, a professor of philosophy at the University of Utah, discusses the deaths of Adams and Jefferson on July 4, 1776. Battin's piece can be accessed at: www.bu.edu/historic/battin.htm. Historically Speaking has a significant connection to ENC. Two ENC History professors are on the editorial staff: Donald Yerxa (editor) and Randall Stephens (associate editor).  Stephens also designs the Society's web page, journal, and bulletin.

Harvard University Press recently awarded ENC history professor Randall Stephens a book contract for his manuscript, The Fire Spreads: The Origins of Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South.  Stephens was offered the contract by Joyce Seltzer, Senior Executive Editor for History and Contemporary Affairs.  Seltzer first approached Stephens in 2004 after seeing that his dissertation was a finalist for a national award.  She has described his manuscript as “impressively researched” and “very well written.”  Seltzer has acquired a number of prominent titles in American history, including Steven Hahn’s A Nation under our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History.  Duke Professor of Church History Grant Wacker describes Stephens’ project as one of the two best dissertations he has read in the field of American religious history.  Similarly, Stephens’ dissertation chair Bert Wyatt-Brown has called this study “unprecedented” and sure to make a major mark on the field.  For more, see this article which appeared in the a January 2006 edition of the Olathe News.

Stephens is starting his second year of teaching at ENC and travels to Boston University one day a week where he works as associate editor of Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society. 
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Jon H. Roberts and David Hackett Fischer will speak at ENC in Fall 2005 as part of the History Department's Distinguished Lecture Series.  Roberts, acclaimed author and Boston University Professor of History, will be speaking on “The Inward Turn in American Protestant Thought, 1870-1940," Nov. 10.  Renowned historian David Hackett Fischer will be giving the History Department’s keynote lecture, “Deep Change: Rhythms of American History,” December 6, 2005.  Fischer is University Professor and Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University and the author of numerous books on American history, including Washington's Crossing, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.

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In May and June 2005, Professor Carla Lovett led ten students on a travel course to Europe.  Students visited nine cities in seven countries in Central and Western Europe, taking in significant historic sites, museums, and galleries along the way.  The course included brief overviews of each country but focused primarily on the historical development and current drama of the European Union.  Students then wrote critical response papers based on their summer travels and research.

Read Professor Carla Lovett's account of the trip: “Innocents Abroad: ENC Visits the European Union”

Read ENC student Ron Kling's essay on “European Union Integration”.
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Past ENC History Dept. Lectures