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American History

  • "Store Per" documentary film interview

  • “The Great Transformation” and “Five Continents and Seven Seas” (RAH, PLC V)

  • Advice for Keeping Your Republic: Constitution Day Address

  • Becoming Less Fruitful: A Demographic History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, 1928-2008

  • Generational Generosity: Handing Down Our Faith to Our Children and Our Children’s Children

  • Homeownership and Public Policy: What Helps, and What Hinders, the American Dream

  • Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist

  • Marital Parenthood and American Prosperity: As Goes the Middle-Class Family, So Goes the Nation

  • Natural and Theological Science at Princeton, 1845-1859

  • Quakers in America: From Persecution through Toleration to Domination

  • Rediscovering Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Eighteenth-Century Solutions for Twenty-first Century Problems

  • Rediscovering the American Republic, Volume 1: 1492-1877

  • Rediscovering the American Republic, Volume 2: 1877-Present

  • Seven Things about the U.S. Constitution that Every College Student Needs to Know

  • The Baby War: Defenders and Defectors

  • The Electoral College: Its History, Some Controversies, and Your Questions

  • The Lutheran Hermeneutic of the Real Presence

  • Two Tales from the Early American Republic (RAH, SS I)

  • U. V. Koren the Citizen

  • War Memoirs of the Rev. William and Jean McMurdie

 
 

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Faculty Positions

  • Professor and Department Chair, B.A. in History Program, Bethany Lutheran College
  • Adjunct Professor, M.A. in Theological Studies Program, Martin Luther College

Recent Projects

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  • Issues, Etc. radio interview: The Magdeburg Confession of 1550 and the Lutheran Principles of Political Resistance, July 3, 2020 [Learn More]
  • Vaccines in Prolife Perspective—LIVE ZOOM CONFERENCE—June 30, 2020 [Learn More]
  • Is the Old Testament Reliable? The Evidence Within the Text:  Mankato, Minnesota, June 27, 2019 [Learn More]
  • The Perils and Promises of Lutheran Science Education in the 21st Century: Madison, Wisonsin, February 14, 2019
  • Getting the Facts Straight: How Grammar, History, and Logic Can Rescue Education from Postfactualism: San Antonio, Texas, January 26, 2019 [Learn More]
  • Rebuilding the Church from the Family Up, Rebuilding the Family from the Elders Down: Manitowoc, Wisconsin, August 4, 2018 [Learn More]
  • What’s Worldview Got to Do with Everything?: Mankato, Minnesota, June 21, 2018 [Learn More]
  • Thank God, There Are So Many Old People in the Church! Ft. Wayne, Indiana, August 1–3, 2017 [Learn More]
  • Biblical Worldview Conference in San Antonio, Texas, February 10–11, 2017 [Learn More]
  • United We Divide: Explaining how no-fault divorce became so universally accepted. [Learn More]
  • Generational Generosity: A study revealing the driving causes of church membership trends. [Learn More]

Books by Dr. MacPherson

Rediscovering the American Republic, vol. 1: 1492-1877 (author)

Rediscovering the American Republic, vol. 2: 1877-Present (author)

Debating Evolution before Darwinism (author)

The Culture of Life (author)

Studying Luther's Large Catechism (author)

Telling the Next Generation (managing editor)

Here We Stand (contributing writer)

Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal (contributing writer)

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