History & Art History

Dr. Randolph Scully’s recent book, Religion and the Making of Nat Turner’s Virginia: Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840, has been awarded the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize for best first book in church history by the American Society of Church History. The book reconstructs the dynamics of the biracial, evangelical religious world that [...]

Undergraduate history major Liz Moore is working with Professor Benedict Carton on a major research project entitled, “Writing Histories of the Mandela Miracle from the U.S. Government Perspective: Unclassified Documents of the National Security Archive and the Transition to Democracy in South Africa.” Their research – part methodological, part analysis – involves [...]