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Our Most Popular Posts

October 11, 2014 · by · in Announcements · Leave a comment

It’s been exactly one month since either of us posted anything to this blog, which seems like as good an excuse as any to check which posts have generated the most interest. In order of page views: The Evangelical Left and Vietnam (Fletcher Warren) War on Terror: We Need You! (FW) Can You Help? A Community Invitation (FW) Welcome to […]

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The Future of This History

September 6, 2014 · by · in Announcements · 1 Comment

If you’ve been wondering why it’s been so quiet here at the Bethel at War project blog… Bethel just finished its first week of class, which kept me occupied, and Fletcher just scarpered off to start his semester abroad. So what’s the future of this digital history? While we had originally thought that we would take our full site live this fall, […]

War on Terror: We Need You!

July 29, 2014 · by · in Announcements, War on Terror · 1 Comment

Please make use of the social media buttons below to share this post as widely as possible. Clicking here will allow you to share this post via email. At the beginning of the month, I put out a call for participation from alumni, faculty, and staff who were at Bethel during the War on Terror. Today, I’d […]

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Our In-Progress Timeline

July 10, 2014 · by · in Announcements · Leave a comment

Regular visitors might have noticed that a new page suddenly appeared here last night: a detailed timeline intermingling events in political and military history with key moments in the development of Bethel University. This timeline is very much a work-in-progress: the War on Terror section has yet to be filled in past the events of […]

Can You Help? A Community Invitation

July 2, 2014 · by · in Announcements, Background and Methodology, War on Terror · 7 Comments

If you’re coming here via the Bethel News channel, I’d like to encourage you to read about how you can contribute to this project by filling out a survey.  Until now, I’ve spent most of my time researching on the Vietnam War. As we move into July, I’ll be focusing increasingly on the War on Terror. […]

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Welcome to “Bethel at War”

June 13, 2014 · by · in Announcements, Background and Methodology, Vietnam War, War on Terror, World War I, World War II · 1 Comment

The year 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, one of the most devastating events in human history. Much less famously, 1914 was also the year that the Swedish Baptist Theological Seminary moved from Chicago, Illinois to St. Paul, Minnesota, where it merged with — and took the name of — a Christian […]