Chris Cantwell
@cdc29.bsky.social
Religious History | Public History | Digital History
Assistant Professor of History | Loyola University Chicago
https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/profiles/cantwellchristopher.shtml
Assistant Professor of History | Loyola University Chicago
https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/profiles/cantwellchristopher.shtml
What a line. Aldo Leopold, “A Sand County Almanac” (1949)
October 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
What a line. Aldo Leopold, “A Sand County Almanac” (1949)
In the (e)mail today.
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In the (e)mail today.
What. A. Paragraph. From Daniel Immerwahr’s “How to Hide an Empire.”
August 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
What. A. Paragraph. From Daniel Immerwahr’s “How to Hide an Empire.”
My department has a nice tradition of putting your book cover up outside of your office door. Was touched to see it up when I arrived to start the semester.
August 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My department has a nice tradition of putting your book cover up outside of your office door. Was touched to see it up when I arrived to start the semester.
The highlight was getting a preview of a forthcoming dashboard made a team led by Yusuf Ransome made that visualizes congregation closings by county to inform local policy.
June 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The highlight was getting a preview of a forthcoming dashboard made a team led by Yusuf Ransome made that visualizes congregation closings by county to inform local policy.
About to begin #FaithPlaceAndHealth2025
June 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
About to begin #FaithPlaceAndHealth2025
Very excited to be heading to Yale next week for this important interdisciplinary conversation on the social impacts of church closure. Yale's School of Public Health will be releasing a new dashboard that tracts the health disparities brought on by congregational decline.
June 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Very excited to be heading to Yale next week for this important interdisciplinary conversation on the social impacts of church closure. Yale's School of Public Health will be releasing a new dashboard that tracts the health disparities brought on by congregational decline.
Super cool (to me) find while thrifting with @secondhandsacred.bsky.social. A postcard sent by “A FRIEND” to a Princeton student in the midst of the ‘64 campaign.
May 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Super cool (to me) find while thrifting with @secondhandsacred.bsky.social. A postcard sent by “A FRIEND” to a Princeton student in the midst of the ‘64 campaign.
Black and white warbler in my backyard.
May 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Black and white warbler in my backyard.
This passage from Tommy Orange’s “There There.”
May 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This passage from Tommy Orange’s “There There.”
🗃️ @ncph.bsky.social ‘s advocacy committee will be hosting a lunchtime “write in” tomorrow on Zoom to write our representatives to advocate for history funding. So if you need an outlet for action to a space to talk, join us! I’ll be cohosting!
community.ncph.org/event/Postca...
community.ncph.org/event/Postca...
April 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🗃️ @ncph.bsky.social ‘s advocacy committee will be hosting a lunchtime “write in” tomorrow on Zoom to write our representatives to advocate for history funding. So if you need an outlet for action to a space to talk, join us! I’ll be cohosting!
community.ncph.org/event/Postca...
community.ncph.org/event/Postca...
It’s like having my own warbler observation deck right outside my office. So far have seen yellow rumped, palm, and chestnut sided warblers as well as an oven bird.
April 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It’s like having my own warbler observation deck right outside my office. So far have seen yellow rumped, palm, and chestnut sided warblers as well as an oven bird.
This is an actually WI High School mascot logo.
April 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This is an actually WI High School mascot logo.
A pair of American Kestrels have built a nest where I charge my car on the way to campus.
April 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A pair of American Kestrels have built a nest where I charge my car on the way to campus.
Happy birthday to me. This is finally out of my life.
April 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Happy birthday to me. This is finally out of my life.
Me too, Ezekiel. Me too.
March 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Me too, Ezekiel. Me too.
I saw three bald eagles flying over Chicago’s northern suburbs on my way to work. Red wing blackbirds are currently singing outside my window. Spring has arrived.
March 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I saw three bald eagles flying over Chicago’s northern suburbs on my way to work. Red wing blackbirds are currently singing outside my window. Spring has arrived.
So flippin’ excited to see Shermann “Dilla” Thomas talk @loyolahistdept.bsky.social’s grad student conference. “If it has a name, it has a history,” he says. A motto we all should respect.
February 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
So flippin’ excited to see Shermann “Dilla” Thomas talk @loyolahistdept.bsky.social’s grad student conference. “If it has a name, it has a history,” he says. A motto we all should respect.
Penultimate draft of the map going in my book. Would appreciate any feedback on edits that could be made to make things clearer. Only note is that the caption will explain the numbers on the map. TIA!
February 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Penultimate draft of the map going in my book. Would appreciate any feedback on edits that could be made to make things clearer. Only note is that the caption will explain the numbers on the map. TIA!
And then there’s this piece of solid writing advice.
December 28, 2024 at 6:50 PM
And then there’s this piece of solid writing advice.
New two-year 🗃️ postdoc at South Carolina on the history of Civil Rights.
December 11, 2024 at 9:58 PM
New two-year 🗃️ postdoc at South Carolina on the history of Civil Rights.
The Chicago Manual of Style, btw, is also not clear!!!
December 11, 2024 at 4:10 PM
The Chicago Manual of Style, btw, is also not clear!!!
From Ryan Burge. Have been thinking about this & the politics of defining who/what is an evangelical. George Marsden used to say that an evangelical is someone who likes Billy Graham. Maybe it's time to start just identifying evangelicals as someone who likes Donald Trump.
December 9, 2024 at 1:51 PM
From Ryan Burge. Have been thinking about this & the politics of defining who/what is an evangelical. George Marsden used to say that an evangelical is someone who likes Billy Graham. Maybe it's time to start just identifying evangelicals as someone who likes Donald Trump.
Fun thing this year is that my neighbor built this contraption to find the park’s most level part. A hose full of water connects them. Apparently it’s an old Portuguese architectural practice.
December 8, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Fun thing this year is that my neighbor built this contraption to find the park’s most level part. A hose full of water connects them. Apparently it’s an old Portuguese architectural practice.