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Charles Irons
Associate Professor - History and Chair of the Department of History and Geography
History and Geography
Lindner Hall - Arts & Sciences 112F
2335 Campus Box
Elon, NC 27244
cirons@elon.edu
Phone: (336) 278-6295

Employment History

ELON UNIVERSITY, Fall 2003-present.

Courses Taught

"United States History to 1865,” "America's Civil War,” "North American Slavery,”  "Research Methods,” "Senior Seminar: Nineteenth-Century South,” 'Honors Seminar: History of Religion in the United States,” "General Studies: Comparative Nationalism in Italy and the United States,” "Jefferson's America (Online)."

Publications

Book

The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 

Articles and Book Chapters

"Zion in Black and White: African American Evangelicals and Missionary Work in the Old South.” In A New History of the Old South: Slavery, Sectionalism and the Nineteenth-Century's Modern World, edited by L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Frank Towers. New York: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.

"Author's Reflection: The Origins of Proslavery Christianity,” Journal of Southern Religion 11 (2009).

"‘Other Souths': The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alamance County, North Carolina.” Journal of Backcountry Studies 3, n. 2 (2008).

"Reluctant, Protestant Confederates: The Religious Roots of Conditional Unionism,” In Virginia's Civil War, edited by Bertram Wyatt-Brown and Peter Wallenstein, 72-86. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.    

"Believing in America: Faith and Politics in Early National Virginia.” American Baptist Quarterly 21, no. 4 (2002): 396-414.    

"The Spiritual Fruits of Revolution: Disestablishment and the Rise of the Virginia Baptists.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 109, no. 2 (2001): 159-186.  

"And All These Things Shall Be Added unto You: The First African Baptist Church, Richmond, 1841- 1865.” Virginia Cavalcade 47, no. 1 (1998): 26-35.

Reviews in Church History, Journal of Southern History, Reviews in American History, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Callaloo, Journal of Southern Religion, H-Net.

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