Dr. Sam Smith on History, Social Justice, and Presentism
Conversations That Matter
Jon Harris
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The chair of the history department at Liberty University shares his thoughts on Jemar Tisby, Social Justice infiltrating historiography, the dangers of presentism, and gives advice to both laymen interested in America's Christian heritage, and high schoolers desiring to become historians.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome once again, the Conversations that Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris, and I am joined today with Dr. Sam Smith, who is the department chair in history at Liberty University. Thank you for joining me today Dr. Smith. |
| 0:14.3 | Thank you, Jonathan. I'm glad to be here. And Liberty University, if you want to just |
| 0:19.1 | give me a little bit, like a 30 second synopsis of what Liberty University is, what the Department of History it is, |
| 0:24.8 | what makes it unique, and what's your role here, is that would be great. |
| 0:28.6 | Liberty University was founded in 1971, and I came here 15 years ago as a history professor. I've been the chair of the department for the last three years and I've been the director of the graduate program for the last 10 years. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm still both of those today. |
| 0:49.0 | It's very unique in that, especially on the graduate side, |
| 0:53.0 | we're the only that I know of, |
| 0:55.6 | master's program in history, |
| 0:58.4 | that's from a fully accredited university |
| 1:01.0 | that teaches history from a conservative and I mean |
| 1:05.6 | Theologically conservative evangelical perspective and we think that's unique |
| 1:12.2 | We think it's special, and a lot of students come to this |
| 1:16.6 | program because of that. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, what motivated you when you are choosing programs in undergrad to be a historian? |
| 1:25.6 | I started out as a biblical studies major and that's actually what my undergraduate |
| 1:30.9 | degree is in in Bible. I went to Bob Jones University and I did a |
| 1:36.7 | history minor and I started really falling in love with history because of a couple of historians that were there. |
| 1:44.4 | Dr. Edward Penozian was our teacher for Western civilization. |
| 1:49.9 | Still to this day, the best history teacher I've ever seen. |
| 1:54.8 | He absolutely captivated his audience, the students. |
| 2:00.3 | This is in a big lecture hall. |
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