Elizabeth Borders (History, ‘22) and her students tiptoed into the parlor of the Rock Ledge House, imagining they were in Almanzo’s house as she read aloud from Farmer Boy. Almanzo had just thrown...

How do PHC students spend their summers? Rising senior Titus Walker (SI, '25) just returned from a month in Scotland, where he completed a summer program at the University of St. Andrews. We asked...

“I’m tired. It’s time to just live the 9-5 life," Elizabeth Shannon (History, '20) thought after graduating from PHC. Four years later, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Modern History at the University of...

I can still remember the nervous excitement in my chest when I walked into my first history class during my freshman year with Dr. Doug Favelo. I selected a seat in the middle of the room—not in the...

A 600-pound, 6-foot-tall stone Armenian cross, known as a khatchkar, lies in a box on campus waiting to be erected on the far side of Lake Bob. “I would love for it to be up by commencement, but I’m...

On a Good Friday, Alumna Kirsten Etherton (CLA-ed ’06) and a friend borrowed a coworker’s car and drove to the local Roman ruins. They had the place to themselves. Up on the hilltop, Kirsten sat in...

You may be thinking, “Not another reading list!” If you’re in high school, you may be learning how to manage a larger workload. If you’re a college student, you may be just trying to get by with the...

What does it mean to study history from a Christian perspective?

Christians often think of Hanukkah as an Old Testament Jewish holiday, but the events that inspired the festival did not happen until after the last book of the Old Testament was written. As the...

What is actually being taught in history classes? And more importantly, whose history is being taught? [Did you miss part 1? Go here.]