Blog What are they thinking? I regularly meet with prospective college students and always end up asking the same question. “Out of curiosity, how do…Rebecca KoerselmanDecember 16, 2019
Blog Hospitable Discourse In twentieth century America, hospitality began to regain some cultural footing. Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin founded the Catholic Worker…Rebecca KoerselmanDecember 2, 2019
Blog Welcoming the Stranger: Hospitality and Historians, part II Hospitality has a rich history, though the practice of hospitality by God’s people was supposed to differ from the dominant…Rebecca KoerselmanNovember 11, 2019
Blog Should Historians be more Hospitable? In the past few decades, professional historians have been in decline in the United States. Historians, professional organizations, and even…Rebecca KoerselmanOctober 28, 2019
Blog The Valley of Vision The curmudgeonly journalist H.L. Mencken pronounced Puritanism as the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. In popular culture,…Rebecca KoerselmanOctober 14, 2019
Blog Questions are the Answer After World War II, colleges were full of GIs securing the benefits of the 1944 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (the “GI…Rebecca KoerselmanSeptember 30, 2019
Blog Google Cannot Teach Discernment Between 2015 and 2016, Sam Wineburg and his team tested students in twelve states and studied 7,804 responses. The team…Rebecca KoerselmanAugust 19, 2019
Blog A Memorial Reflection The absence of space startled me. The longer I stood there, the more I was struck by the weightiness of…Rebecca KoerselmanAugust 5, 2019
Blog Why Either – Or? If God incarnated himself in man, died and rose from the dead, All human endeavors deserve attention Only to the…Rebecca KoerselmanJuly 22, 2019
Blog My Favorite World War II Story It wasn’t a surprise. After all, simple math shows anyone who remembered the years of World War II would be…Rebecca KoerselmanJuly 8, 2019