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.
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...