Historiography Women in Earlier Bethel Histories: “Compensatory History” 12 Sep 20249 Dec 2024 As when he wrote about the larger denomination in his Centenary History of the Baptist General Conference, women mostly stay in the background of Adolf Olson's coverage of Bethel, the…
Sources Photographs as Historical Evidence 9 Sep 20249 Dec 2024 One advantage of presenting my research in the form of a digital history rather than a more traditional publication is that it's easy to incorporate both still and moving images…
Historiography… Women in Earlier Bethel Histories: “Work in the Background” 5 Sep 20249 Dec 2024 Few historians ever break entirely new ground. We might bring new perspectives to new evidence or use new methods to answer new questions, but we are all revisiting — and…
Background… Why Blog First? 3 Sep 2024 So why use this site as a blog, when it will eventually turn into a more polished digital project? Why should a historian write in such an informal fashion, sometimes…
Methodology The Problem of Periodization 27 Aug 20249 Dec 2024 When do you start the story of the women of Bethel University? Most Bethel stories trace their way back to 1871, the year that sailor-pastor-scholar John Alexis Edgren founded a…
Background Why a Women’s History of Bethel University? 26 Aug 202426 Aug 2024 Why am I spending the fall of 2024 researching the women's history of Bethel University? Here's how I explained my latest sabbatical project in a post written earlier this year.…
The Women of Bethel 