D.G. Hart
- Delp 421
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“‘Historian’: an unsuccessful novelist.”— H. L. Mencken
Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for D.G. Hart
Education
B.A., Film, Temple University
M.A.R. Church History, Westminster Seminary
M.T.S., U.S. Religious History, Harvard University
M.A., U.S. History, Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D., U.S. History, Johns Hopkins University
Memberships
American Historical Association
American Society of Church History
Conference on Faith and History
Board of Directors–Mencken Society
Board of Directors–Presbyterian Historical Society
Awards
Makemie Prize for best book in Presbyterian History, 1994 (Presbyterian Historical Society)
News
Publications
Ben Franklin: Cultural Protestant. Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2021.
American Catholic: Faith and Politics during the Cold War. Cornell University Press, 2020.
Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken. Eerdmans, 2016.
Calvinism: A History. Yale, 2013.
From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism. Eerdmans, 2011.
Between the Times: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Transition, 1945-1990. OPC Committee for the Historian, 2011.
Seeking A Better Country: 300 Years of American Presbyterianism. P&R Books, 2007.
A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State. Ivan R. Dee, 2006.
The Lost Soul of American Protestantism, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies and American Higher Education. Johns Hopkins, 1999.
Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America. Johns Hopkins, 1994.
Online Publications
“Painting evangelicals as hypocrites.” Washington Times, 2019.
“The World Ike Wrought.” The Wall Street Journal, 2015.
“Consciences at a Crossroads.” The Wall Street Journal, 2016.
“Fundamental Mistakes.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2016.
Biography
I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, rooted for the Phillies in the era of Richie Allen, attended university in the city, and lived there off and on for the better part of 15 years. As such, I am attached to the East Coast and its urban centers (including Boston and Baltimore). My interest in history began even while I majored in film at Temple. Reading Shakespeare prompted an interest in early modern England, though I could not shake an attachment to 1920s America thanks to reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in high school.
Ever since then, my training in history, and practice of it in the classroom and at the keyboard, has zigged and zagged from 1920s Baltimore and eighteenth-century Philadelphia to sixteenth-century Geneva and twentieth-century Wheaton. That is the great thing about history-you never know where it leads, even to living in south-central Michigan for the longest period of your life.