Missionary Diplomacy, Applied

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If you want to understand American foreign policy today, you have to understand the history of Protestant foreign missions and its deep entanglement with American diplomacy for more than a century.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing for the Public

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Though it’s generally taboo to say, I consider myself a presentist historian. I am interested in history to the extent that it speaks to our current moment and helps us push toward a better future.

Of Hindsight and Foresight: An Introduction to “Rethinking Applied History”

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Over the last few years, I have found myself in an awkward spot. What is my intellectual identity?

Echoes of Spanish-Mexican Women in California’s Constitutional Debates of 1849

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In 1857, Maria Natividad de Haro de Tissol petitioned the Fourth District Court of California to appoint a trustee over her separate property.