On Sunday night, I sent in my article on Alexander Hamilton for the Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America. I also asked for and received assignments to write several more articles: a sidebar about Hamilton’s duel with Aaron Burr, an article on the fugitive slave laws, and an article about the domestic slave trade.

The total word count for the four articles will put me over five thousands words, so I’ll get a free copy of the encyclopedia and actually be able to own my first published writing. (At work yesterday, a fellow editor congratulated me and then mentioned that one of his short stories was published in third grade. I’m behind.)

For those who attend Grace Baptist Church, this the next hand out for the Sunday school class surveying Bible doctrines.

“Anthropology”

This past Saturday, several of the BJU history faculty and students and I attended the spring meeting of the South Carolina Historical Association. The meeting was held at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Jonathan Newell (my roommate) and I traveled with Dr. and Mrs. Matzko. We left Friday afternoon and spent the night to be at the conference in the morning. We had planned to pick David Mathues up from the Myrtle Beach airport, but snowstorms in the Midwest cancelled his flights, so we weren’t sure when or whether he would arrive.

On Saturday we went to different sessions. In the first session, we heard Dr. Matzko present a paper on BJU’s move from Cleveland, Tennessee to Greenville, South Carolina. For the second session, Jon and I decided to listen to papers on the Lost Cause and on politics in the confederacy. At the same time, Dr. Hayner was chairing another session.

David arrived in Myrtle Beach some time around noon, and I left the conference to pick him up at the airport. After some difficulty in finding each other at the airport, we made it back to the conference about an hour before David was scheduled to present his paper.

In the afternoon session Jon, David, and Paul Matzko presented papers on evangelist Billy Sunday. Each had written his paper for Dr. Matzko’s class Historical Research and Writing. Jon’s paper was on Sunday’s 1923 campaign in Columbia; David’s was on his 1923 campaign in Charleston. Paul’s paper dealt with Sunday’s views on creationism and his attacks on evolution. They presented their papers well, and there was a good discussion afterwards.

Perhaps if David reads this post, he can leave a comment about his return to South Bend.

Andrew and Melanie have a new blog, titled Points of View. You should go visit.