Angela M. Lahr

I am an Associate Professor of History with a Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University. I teach U.S. history and Japanese history. My research interests include American religious history, the history of the Cold War, and women's history.

Courses Taught at Westminster:

• History 105 – U.S. History to 1877

• History 106 – U.S. History since 1865

• History 107 – Pennsylvania's Place in Early U.S. History

• History 225 – From Elvis to Watergate: American History from 1945-1974

• History 227 – The Age of the American Revolution

• History 228 - Disease in U.S. History

• History 229 – The United States and the World

• History 262 – History of Japan

• History 308 – History of the Cold War

• History 316 – Belief and Power in American Religious History

• History 320 – "Remember the Ladies": The History of American Women's Movements

• History 410 – Historical Methods and Analysis

• History 420 – Historiography

• History 601 – Capstone I

• History 602 – Capstone II

• Interfaith Studies 174 - Religion in America

Selected Publications:

• Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• “‘Bowed in the Dust’: Guilt and Conscience in the Life of Angelina Grimké Weld.” The Historian 77, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 1-25.
• “Lighting ‘Human Spirit-Lamps’: Frances Willard, the Conscience of Reform, and American Civil Religion.” In The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion: Sinners, Saints, and Symbols. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016.
• "Christian Nationalism and Millennialism in the USA." In Cambridge Companion to Religion and War, ed. Margo Kitts. Cambridge University Press, 2023.