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| | | September 23, 2005 > Historian Butler to speak for Assembly Series Historian Butler to speak for Assembly Series  By Kurt Mueller Eminent Yale University historian Jon Butler, Ph.D., will give the Thomas Fulbright Lecture for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. Sept. 28 in Graham Chapel. His talk is titled "The Miracle of Religion in Modern American History." His research subjects cover considerable depth and breadth including the Huguenot diaspora, Jewish life in early America, Africans' religions, Protestant success in America, religion in the revolutionary age, Keithians, Catholicism, witchcraft, magic and astrology.
Among his books are The Origins of American Denominational Order; The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society; Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People; and Becoming American: The Revolution Before 1776. He has also written a book for adolescent readers, Religion in Colonial America. Butler is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale. He earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota. Assembly Series talks are free and open to the public. For more information, call 935-4620 or go online to assemblyseries.wustl.edu. | | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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