John Fea Associate Professor of American History

Current Courses (Spring 2010) HIS 339: Immigrant America IDS: Created and Called for Community 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 .

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