Snapshots
Currently thinking: Lately I’ve been thinking about my current project, a book that tells the story about how the idea of a “free society” took hold in the 17th century, and gained expression through the various colonial experiments in the British Atlantic world.
Currently reading: David Guterson, The Other; Donald Dayton and Robert Johnson, The Variety of American Evangelicalism; Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw, Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals.
Currently serving: community adult literacy program, local church deacon and Sunday school teacher, cub scout den leader, boy scout troop leader, venture crew advisor.
• U.S. History I and II
• Perspectives on Culture and Civilization I and II
• Great Issues in American History
• American Environmental History
• Civil War and Reconstruction
• History of Christianity
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Exploring God (Alpha, 2005)
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Christianity (Alpha, 2004)
• “Introduction,” Winston Churchill, The History of the English Speaking People, vol. 3 (Barnes & Noble, 2004)
Books: The Voyage of the Canterbury Merchant and the Creation of the Modern Free World
Essays: “Plowmen, Clowns and Louts: Rusticity and Civility in Early Pennsylvania”; “Improvement: The Convoluted History of an Environmental Ethic”
Reviews: American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy
jwebb@huntington.edu
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Recent trips: Glacier NP, Lamanai, Belize
