Everyone 55 or older remembers it—remembers where they were when they heard that President Kennedy had been shot. That the…
James BrattNovember 23, 2013
I’ve been reading some of the flood of books coming out ahead of next year’s centennial of the start of…
James BrattOctober 25, 2013
Thanks to Jason Lief for covering for me yesterday. I spent the better part of a week earlier this semester…
James BrattOctober 12, 2013
I’m down at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College this weekend for a conference on . . . Billy…
James BrattSeptember 27, 2013
I know I promised to finish up some reflections on Harriet Beecher Stowe and Calvinism this week, but yesterday’s 50th-anniversary…
James BrattAugust 29, 2013
Late summer means slogging through tasks you signed up for under fairer prospects and distant deadlines. For me that means…
James BrattAugust 16, 2013
My mind keeps circling back to Trayvon Martin—not to the person, admittedly, nor to the trial with its outrageous…
James BrattAugust 2, 2013
On the road yet again this week, this time in St. Louis for a conference on early American history. On…
James BrattJuly 19, 2013
Every decade probably gets The Great Gatsby it deserves. The 1920s found the novel to be less telling a revelation…
James BrattJune 7, 2013
