Department News:
(News Archives--Beginning 9-2005)

RADIO SHOW "TALKING HISTORY" COMES TO WVVM "The V" (90.7). On September 16, 2004 WVVM 90.7 (the Messiah radio station) began broadcasting "Talking History"--a 30 minute radio program on history (largely American) sponsored by the Organization of American Historians and broadcast nation wide on Public Radio Satellite System and internationally on the Voice of America.  The show will air every Thursday at  11:00am.    For more information on the show see: http://talkinghistory.oah.org/

Faculty News:

 John Fea

• John has recently published book reviews in The William and Mary Quarterly and The Journal of the Early Republic
  
• John has recently published two op-ed pieces.  “Democratic Party Can Find Help on “Values” Issues in Pro-Life Wing,” appeared in the Harrisburg Sunday Patriot-News published November 28, 2004 and "Embracing the Pope--Selectively" was distributed on April 15, 2005 by the History News Service.  It appeared in several national newspapers, including the Miami Herald and Salt Lake City Tribune.
• In March, 2005, John was a speaker at the Bethany Village Retirement Home.  His topic was,  “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?” 
  
• John's article "Coming to Terms With Lincoln" was recently published in The Cresset: A Review of Literature, The Arts, and Public Affairs (Advent 2004).

Joseph Huffman

• Joseph presented a paper entitled, " Charity, Cooperation, and Coercion: Managing the Poor in Medieval Cologne," at the Spring Meeting of the American Society of Church History, Harrisburg, April 2004.
  
• Joseph's article "Die sozialen Aspekte der Außenpolitik: Diplomatische Beziehungen zwischen englischen und deutschen Herrschern im 12. Jahrhundert," is forthcoming in Der Weg in eine weitere Welt: Kommunikation und "politisches Handeln" im 12. Jahrhundert ed. Hanna Vollrath (LIT Verlag).
• Joseph's book, Family, Commerce, and Religion in London and Cologne has been released in paperback by Cambridge University Press

James LaGrand

• In October, 2003 Jim spoke in Edmonton at the 2003 Aboriginal Strategies Conference sponsored by the Canadian government.
• Jim will have an article entitled "Indian Work and Indian Neighborhoods: Adjusting to Life in a Midwestern Metropolis during the 1950s," in the forthcoming collection A People In-Between: Native Americans in the Midwest to be published by the University of Illinois Press.
• Jim has recently published reviews in The Journal of American History, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and American Studies.

• In October 2005, Bernardo will serve as the discussant for a session entitled "Social Histories of Space in Latin America," at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University.
  
• In March 2005, Bernardo and history major Jeff Erbig recently gave a public lecture at Messiah entitled entitled "Towards a Cultural History of Archives"
• In March 2005, Bernardo presented (in abstentia) "The Tarai: A Part of Moghlan or Gorkha?: Perspectives from the Time of the Anglo-Ghorkan War, 1814-1816" at a conference entitled  Nepal Tarai: Context and Possibilities, Kathmandu, Nepal.
• In February 2005, Bernardo and Dr. Gilbert Lozano recently served as discussants for the film, "My American Girls" as part of the 2005 Messiah College Spring Humanities Symposium.
  
• Bernardo presented a paper entitled "Tenurial Relations, Territoriality, and Colonial Boundaries: Mirza Abdullahh Beg on the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier, 1780-1814" at the North East Region Association of Asian Studies Meeting, 5-6 November 2004, Darthmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
• Bernardo led a cross-cultural trip to Nepal in May of 2005.

• Anne Marie presented a paper entitled "Christian Mwalimu:  Language, Identity and Power amongst Anglican Mission Teachers in late Nineteenth Century Tanzania" in November 2004 at the African Studies Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.
• Anne Marie presented a paper entitled "Our Mother has very much Increased her Children":  Mission Narratives from Young African Teachers in Southeastern Tanzania, 1888-1896 in November 2003 at the African Studies Association annual meeting, Boston, MA.
  

• Norm presented a paper entitled, "The Curtailment of Lutheranism in Bavaria: Imperial Politics and the Regensburg Economic Embargo" at a session entitled "Medieval and Reformation Europe: Paupers, Cathars, and Lutherans" at Spring 2004 meeting of the American Society of Church History, Harrisuburg, PA, April, 2004.