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Spotlight/Insight: USIH Prize Winners Reflect

So many insights, with more to come! Thanks for joining us on a virtual road trip to visit some of our USIH Book Prize winners, and see how their scholarship connects to our #USIH2020 conference theme of “Revolution & Reform.” We chatted with Jan Stievermann, professor of the history of Christianity in the U.S. at Heidelberg University, and director of the Jonathan Edwards Center Germany. Check out his Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana, which won the 2017 USIH Book Prize. This year’s entries are due 15 April 2020 and Read more