The Journal of American History recently published a review by Paul Harris, History. Harris covered “An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicals and World Christianity, 1812-1920” by Jay Riley Case. Harris also spoke on Martin Luther King Day at the Plains Art Museum’s celebration on King’s Life and Legacy and appeared as a guest on the KXJB show “Point of View.” Earlier […]
Paul Harris, History, presented a paper entitled “Exporting Uplift from Georgia to Liberia: Two Methodist Schools”, as part of the annual meeting of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity in New Haven, Conn. The paper grew out of an ongoing research project on racial politics in the northern branch of the Methodist Church, […]
Allan Branstiter, an MSUM senior History major from Cooperstown, N.D., won the Society of Military History Prize for the best paper in history by an undergraduate student, and the First Division Association Prize at the Northern Great Plains Conference, held in Grand Forks, N.D., earlier this month. Branstiter’s work about confederate diplomacy and the Palmerston government of Great Britain was […]
“Women Against Women: the Origins of Anti-Feminism” is the topic of a brown bag presentation Wednesday, March 31 talk at 11:30 a.m. in CMU 205. History Professor Paul Harris and MLA graduate student Travis Barrows, will lead the discussion. Men may have led opposition to the women’s suffrage movement, but once the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote, it became clear that many women were also opposed to feminism. The anti-feminist movement among women in the 1920s raises questions of continuing relevance (think Sarah Palin). Click headline to read more.
Paul Harris, History, was an invited participant in a session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Church History. The session commemorated the bicentennial of the founding of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Harris presented a paper entitled “The Parable of the Mustard Seed: Metaphor and Policy in Nineteenth-Century Missions.”