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2015 Billy Graham Center Archival Research Lecture
Thursday October 1st, 7pm

Billy Graham preaching in front of the statue of George Washington in Wall Street, New York City, 1957

"Evangelicalism was Everywhere":
The Born Again Moment in American Historiography

This year's Archival Research Lecture, to be delivered by Dr. Steven P. Miller.

The lecture will be on Thursday, October 1, at 7pm in the Wilson Suite on the 4th floor of the Billy Graham Center, 500 E. College Avenue at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, USA.

How do you do historical research in an archives? What is it like to work with actual fragments from the past, to reconstruct a picture of past from documents such as newspaper clippings, letters, diaries, photos, and film? These are some of the general themes of the Archival Research Lectures. Every year a scholar who has worked in the BGC Archives talks about his/her own experiences doing research (at the BGC Archives and other places) and describe some of the fruits of that research.

Dr. Miller, Ph.D., is the author of The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). He lives in St. Louis, where he teaches U.S. and world history at Webster University and Washington University (University College).

In this year's lecture, he will be describing his own research experiences and reflecting on current trends in the study of the history of American Evangelicalism

The lecture will be followed by a reception. The Archives will also have an exhibit accompanying the lecture.

Click here for information on past BGC Archival Lectures.