The Kentucky Wesleyan College Wade Lecture Series will present a pair of lectures surrounding American History this March. Both events are free and open to the public.
“Baptizing Andrew Jackson: Religious Politics and the Rise of American Democracy” with Daniel Gullotta, Ph.D., will be hosted on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 5 p.m. in the Panther Room at the Jack T. Wells ’77 Activity Center at 3300 Frederica St.
Dr. Gullotta is a postdoctoral research associate at the Declaration of Independence Center at the University of Mississippi. He holds a Ph.D. in American Religious History from Stanford University and a master’s degree in the History of Christianity from Yale University. His first book, examining the intersection of religion and politics in the rise of Andrew Jackson, is forthcoming from Yale University Press. This summer, he will serve as an Academic Visiting Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, where he will conduct research on magic and witch-hunting in early America for his second book.
“Informed Citizenship and America’s Revolutionary Tradition” with Mark Boonshoft, Ph.D., will be held on Thursday, March 27 at 5 p.m. in the Panther Room.
Dr. Boonshoft is an associate professor and Conrad M. Hall ’65 chair in American Constitutional History at Virginia Military Institute and a historian of early America. He holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Dr. Boonshoft worked on the Early American Manuscripts Project as a post-doctoral fellow in the New York Public Library’s manuscripts division. He has taught at several universities, including Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., where he was assistant professor of history, and was formerly the first full-time executive director of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. His first book, “Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic,” was published by the University of North Carolina Press in fall 2020 and was a finalist for the 2021 George Washington Book Prize.
The Robert H. and Alma J. Wade Endowment Fund provides this lecture series and is possible through the generous donation in memory of Dr. Wade and his wife, Laura Alma Jones Wade, by their son, Dr. Bob Wade.