Dr. Dale Moler joined Northwood University in 2015 and serves as Assistant Professor of History and Honors Program Lead. He received a PhD in History from Central Michigan University and an MSc in Historical Studies from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. His research interests focus on the role of technology in shaping the way people live and interact with one another, as well as the ways in which societies organize and regulate those technologies. Before joining Northwood, Dr. Moler also served on the faculty at Central Michigan University, Lansing Community College, and Saginaw Valley State University.
The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is a good time to remind ourselves that a revolution is not one thing, but many things. In the late 18th century, Americans underwent an ideological, political, cultural, and economic revolution that reshaped their present lives and their nation’s future. In this way, the Declaration of Independence...
What was the American Revolution? The Declaration of Independence established it as a new way of thinking about liberty and government. But the Revolution also involved a War for Independence that shaped the way those Americans thought about themselves and their former rulers. Just as the ideas of the founders helped create the United States,...
If you think that your community today is too fractured over political issues, imagine what it would have felt like to live in the American colonies on the eve of the Revolution. The situation with the British government across the Atlantic had united colonists while simultaneously creating new divisions. As the disagreements spiraled toward violence,...
What causes revolutionary change? What drives history forward? When we think of the American War of Independence, we correctly give credit to the ideas put forth by Enlightened thinkers who reshaped the way people thought about liberty, justice, and equality. Ideas that began in the Old World were reconsidered and reformulated in the New World...