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 ENC student, Ron Kling's essay on “European Union Integration”
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Renowned historian David Hackett Fischer will be giving the History Department’s keynote lecture in December, 2005.  Fischer is University Professor and Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University and the author of numerous acclaimed books on American history, including Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (Oxford University Press, 1989); Paul Revere's Ride (Oxford University Press, 1994); The Great Wave: Price Movements in Modern History (Oxford University Press, 1996); Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement (University of Virginia Press, 2000); and Washington’s Crossing (Oxford, 2004), for which Fischer won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. 

Fischer will be speaking at ENC on his latest work, Liberty and Freedom (Oxford, 2004), a sweeping narrative of American history, chronicling the ever-changing meanings of “liberty” and “freedom.”  Professor Donald Yerxa will be teaching an upper division course in Fall 2005 that will survey the work of Fischer.
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The History Department is offering a batch of new, exciting courses for the 05-06 year.  Among these are: HI350 Africa in World History,  Fall 2005, MWF Period 2, with Professor William McCoy; HI410 Seminar in American History: the Work of David Hackett Fischer, Fall 2005, Tues 3:00 - 5:30pm, with Professor Donald Yerxa; HI346 America in the Vietnam War Era, Fall 2005, Tues, Thur, with Professor Randall J. Stephens; and HI337 History of Science & Christianity, Fall 2005, Tues., Thurs., 9:30 -10:45am, with Professor Donald Yerxa.  Click here for more details on each of these and other 05-06 classes.

Professor Randall Stephens has kept himself rather busy this year with a string of conference presentations and talks.  He was an invited presenter at the annual Society For Pentecostal Studies conference, held in Virginia Beach, VA (March 2005).  Stephens commented on Duke Professor of homiletics, William Clair Turner’s paper, "Follow Peace with All Men: The ‘Blackness’ of the United Holy Church of America."  In early March, Professor Stephens delivered a paper on his research for the ENC Public Lecture Series, organized by Professors Carla Lovett and Marianna Krejci-Papa.  In April 2005, he presented a paper entitled "'Jesus is Coming': Premillennialism and the Radicalization of the Southern Holiness Movement, 1896-1906" at the New England Historical Association conference held at Regis College, Weston, MA.  And, in October 2005 Stephens will present a paper, "'The mob was to kill a Wesleyan': Wesleyan Perfectionist Missionaries in Virginia and North Carolina, 1847-1851," at a University of Florida conference honoring the work of Bertram Wyatt-Brown.  When he can get a breath, Stephens is also reworking his dissertation into a book and completing several articles for publication.

On April 30th, Yerxa joined scholars from Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Bowdoin College, and Syracuse University to assess David Hackett Fischer's Liberty and Freedom at the New England Political Science Association's annual meeting in Portland, Maine. Fischer, who recently received the Pulitzer Prize for his Washington's Crossing and who will speak at ENC on December 6, 2005, was there to respond to the panelists. 

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Past ENC History Department Lectures