Department News

Faculty News - Fall 2007

Dr. Keith Bates presented a paper entitled “The Extension of Mainstream Fundamentalism: John R. Rice and the Southern Baptist Convention's 'Conservative Resurgence" at the Tennessee Conference of Historians on September 14-15. As the featured speaker at Union’s Enkuklios Paidaeia evening on October 30, he made a presentation on the educational philosophy of the sixteenth-century Protestant theologian Philip Melanchthon. On October 22, he served as a commentator at a history department program about Ken Burns’ The War. On October 31, he was a presenter at a Reformation Day history colloquium entitled “Modern Implications of the Reformation.” On November 2, he participated in an honors colloquium dealing with history entitled “The Idea of History.”

Dr. Stephen Carls served as a panel moderator at and helped host the Tennessee Conference of Historians on September 14-15. On October 22, he moderated and presented a commentary at a history department program about Ken Burns’ The War. On October 31 he flew to Richmond, Virginia, where he attended the Southern Historical Association Conference on November 1-3. On November 8-10, he attended the Holocaust Studies Conference at Middle Tennessee State University. He served as a panel moderator and the official conference photographer.

Dr. Judy LeForge coordinated the Tennessee Conference of Historians on Union’s campus on September 14-15. On October 18-20, she attended the Ohio Valley History Conference in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She served as a commentator on October 22 at a history department program on Ken Burns’ The War, and she attended the Southern Historical Association Conference in Richmond, Virginia, on November 1-3. In her capacity as the history department’s history education liaison, she organized a history education reception for faculty and students on November 13.

Dr. Terry Lindley moderated a panel at the Tennessee Conference of Historians on September 14-15. He attended the Ohio Valley History Conference at Western Kentucky University on October 18-20, and he served as a commentator at a history department program on Ken Burns’ The War. On October 31, he made a presentation at a history colloquium entitled “Modern Implications of the Reformation.”

Dr. David Thomas worked as a panel moderator at the Tennessee Conference of Historians on September 14-15. He also served as a panelist for a history-focused honors colloquium about “The Idea of History” on November 2. As the recipient of a fall semester research leave from Union University, he has spent his time writing historical fiction stories for children and reading religious history books and articles that deal with the era of the American Revolution and the early National period.