John Fea Associate Professor of American History

Current Syllabi (Spring 2009) HIS 344: Civil War America HIS 399: Religion and the American Founding Created and Called for Community (First Year CORE) Past Syllabi: HIS 342: America in an Age of Revolution HIS 341: Colonial America HON 497: The Culture of Consumption in American Life HIS 339: Immigrant America HIS 335: Age of Jefferson and Jackson HIS 141: US History to 1865 HIS 399: Early American Republic Vita and Research Links: Databases/Research Consumer Culture Links Early America Civil War Faith and Scholarship Messiah College Home Messiah College History Dept

John Fea Box 3051 Department of History Messiah College One College Avenue Grantham, PA 17027 717-766-2511 ext. 2253 jfea@messiah.edu BOOK WEBSITE AND BLOG www.philipvickersfithian.com Check/bookmark for reviews, speaking, updates, and commentary The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (U of Pennsylvania Press,  2008) Check it Out .

Pennsylvania Monument at the Gettysburg Battlefield (Photo by Neil Roberts) Recent  Short Writings "In Search of Unity: Presbyterians in the Wake of the First Great Awakening,"Journal of Presbyterian History (Fall 2008).  Not yet on-line. "Obama's Pick of Warren," Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 23, 2008 "The Forgotten Virtue of Gratitude, Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 26, 2008. "The Way of Improvement Leads Home" Blog Religion and American History Blog (Contributing Editor).  WINNER OF THE 2007 CLIOPATRIA AWARD FOR BEST NEW HISTORY BLOG! PA Commonwealth Speaker,  2008-2009: Available for Two Talks: "Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?" or Patriots in Love: Courtship, Marriage and the American Revolution Odds and Ends You Might be an Historian If....