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Daniel K. Williams

Historian and Author

Books

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Works

In the Press

''Thoroughly researched and engagingly written...God's Own Party should serve as the standard history of the latest Protestant Right for the foreseeable future."

On Defenders of the Unborn: "A deeply researched, evenhanded, accessible and surprising history of anti-abortion before Roe v. Wade."

On The Politics of the Cross: "Williams offers a needed voice of wisdom, compassion, and maturity to a nation that seems on the brink of moral, political, and spiritual collapse. If ever such a voice was needed in American civil discourse, it is now. And if ever there was an example of a Christian thinker for such a time as this, it is Daniel K. Williams.”

Journal of American History

New York Times Book Review

John D. Wilsey, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Bio

Portrait of Daniel K. Williams

Daniel K. Williams is a historian of American religion and politics teaching at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Brown University, and he taught for 18 years at the University of West Georgia before moving to Ashland.

 

His articles on the historical context of contemporary developments in American evangelicalism, conservative politics, and the abortion debate have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Christianity Today, and Current, as well as numerous other venues.

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Dr. Williams frequently gives media interviews and public lectures on American religion and politics. If you would like to contact him for an interview or lecture request, email him at Daniel.Kenneth.Williams@gmail.com.

He is the author of four books on the Religious Right and the pro-life movement:

  • God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right

  • Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade

  • The Election of the Evangelical: Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976

  • The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship

 

He is currently writing a history of American Christian apologetics that is under contract with Oxford University Press and a study of American religious attitudes toward abortion that will be published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

In The Press
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Speaking Engagements

February 21, 2024: "Evangelical Political Leadership in an Era of Secularization"
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

March 22, 2024: Keynote Address
History Graduate Student conference, Florida State University

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