Public Lectures and Symposia
November 3, 2009:
ANNUAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT ALUMNI LECTURE
Janet (Kraft) Vogel '03, Children's Services Supervisor, Thurmont MD Regional Library System.
"'Cheese-Aspic Peaks' and 'Sunshine Salad': Gelatin in American Life"
April 21, 2009
American Democracy Lecture: Darrel Bigham, University of Southern Indiana. (Endorsed by Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission).
Lecture transcript (PDF) - "My Life with Lincoln: History, Memory and Irony"
Roundtable Discussion: Gabor Boritt, Matt Pinsker, Mark Neely, John Fea, Lawrence Burnley, James LaGrand
February 26, 2009
Spring Humanities Symposium Keynote Address: Alan Wolfe, "Who's Afraid of American Religion."
February 26, 2009
Panel: "Seeking the Welfare of the City:
Historical Perspectives on Faith in the Public Square." Dr. David Pettegrew, Dr. Joseph Huffman, Dr. James LaGrand. In conjunction with the 2009 Humanities Symposium.
February 18, 2009
Anne Marie Stoner-Eby, "African Clergy, Bishop Lucas, and the Christianizing of Local Inititation Rites: Revisiting 'The Masasi Case'."
November, 10, 2008
Christine Rosen, Author of Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement (Oxford, 2004) and My Fundamentalist Education (Public Affairs, 2005).
November 3, 2008
Hilda Mantelmacher, "Reflections of a Holocaust Survivor."
April 25, 2007
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“The Essence of Liberty, Citizenship and Democracy for Free Black
Women in the Slave Era.” 2007 American Democracy Lecture |
March 29, 2007
Wendy Urban-Mead, Bard College, "Quest for Kinship in Christ: An African Family in the Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe, 1900 to Present."
February 21, 2007
Lauren Smith, Messiah College, "Global Leaf: A Short History of Tea as Commodity." Response from Dr. John Fea, Messiah College. Presented as part of the Spring 2007 Messiah College Humanities Symposium
February 19, 2007
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Genzo Yamamoto, Wheaton College, "Global Modernity and its Discontents." Presented as part of the Spring 2007 Messiah College Humanities Symposium. |
December 5, 2006
Kelly Knight, Senior Honors Presentation: "Loyalty and Dissent in Civil War Maryland: William Wilkins Glenn and the Suppression of the Daily Exchange."
March 2, 2006
Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Washington Post Columnist, "The Gulag: What We Know Now and Why it Matters." (For photos of the event, click here)
April 29, 2005
"Performative Mapping: Land and Cartographic Culture in Lumbisi, 1762-1824." Senior Honors Project Presentation by Jeff Erbig, Messiah College History Major.
"The New Democratic Conspiracy: The Agrarians and Simple Livers' Benevolent Ambition to Take Over the World." Senior Honors Project Presentation by Nathan Tillman, Messiah College History Major.
April 26, 2005
"Why Study African History," public lecture by Professor Anne Marie Stoner-Eby, Messiah College Department of History
April 19, 2005
Dr. Harry S. Stout, Yale University. "A Moral History of the American Civil War." American Democracy Lecture. 8:00pm, Hostetter Chapel.
Feburary 24, 2005
David McCullough, "The Two Americas: A Historical Perspective." In conjunction with the 2005 Messiah College Spring Humanities Symposium
February 23, 2005
James LaGrand, "Pluralism and Nationalism in the Civil Rights Movement." 2005 Messiah College Spring Humanities Symposium.
October 27, 2004
Dr. David Chapell, University of Arkansas. "Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow"
September 17, 2004
"Public History: The Content and Context of an Education." Public lecture by Dr. Jerome D. Bowers, Northern Illinois University.
May 4, 2004
"Bursting the Bubble: Race Relations at Messiah College in the 1960s and 1970s. Presentation of independent study project by Rebecca Roberts, Messiah College senior student in History.
April 29, 2004
"A History of Messiah College's Philadelphia Campus," presentation of honors thesis by Sarah Mackin, Messiah College senior student in History.
April 21, 2004
"Post-Colonialism and the Future of History," public lecture by Dr. Norman Wilson, Messiah College Department of History."
March, 8 2004
 In Search of a 'Decent Society': Christopher Lasch, Capitalism, and Community," public lecture by Dr. Eric Miller, Director of the Humanities Program and Assistant Professor of History, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA. This lecture will be held as part of the 2004 Spring Humanities Symposium sponsored by the Messiah College School of Humanities.
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October 28, 2003
“The Way of Improvement Leads Home: The Rural Enlightenment in America,” public lecture by John Fea, Messiah College Department of History.
November 6, 2003
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Faculty Bookends Seminar on Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75 by Jim LaGrand, Messiah College Department of History, with panelists Alison Bernstein, Paul Rosier, and Steve Cobb. |
May 13, 2003
“Two Hundred Years of American Dining Rooms,” presentation of honors thesis by Janet Kraft, Messiah College senior honors student in History.
May 13, 2003
“Republicanism and American First Ladies from Martha Washington to Dolly Madison,” presentation of honors thesis by Megan Jones, Messiah College senior honors student in History.
March 11, 2003
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History for a Democracy,” American Democracy Lecture by Wilfred McClay, SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities and Professor of History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. |
May 13, 2002
“Anti-Semites or Patriots? The American Response to the Holocaust,” presentation of honors thesis by Mac Brodt, Messiah College senior honors student in History.
November 8, 2001
“Doing Cultural History: Some Evidence from the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier, 1800-1815,” public lecture by Bernardo Michael, Messiah College Department of History.
March 13, 2001
“Oral History: It’s More Than Turning on the Tape Recorder,” public lecture by Linda Shopes, Pennsylvania Museum & Historical Commission.
February 27, 2001
“Thomas Jefferson: Republicanism, Federalism, and the American Democracy Tradition,” American Democracy Lecture by Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History, University of Virginia.
November 1999
Faculty Bookends Seminar on Family, Commerce, and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants, c. 1000-c.1300 by Joseph Huffman, Messiah College Department of History, with panelists Edward M. Peters and E. Morris Sider.
March 24, 1999
“Was Blood Thicker Than Water?: Ethnic and Civic Nationalism in the Civil War,” American Democracy Lecture by James M. McPherson, Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University.
