2015 Chicagoland CFH Student Conference

In April, Trinity hosted the 10th annual Chicagoland Conference on Faith and History (CFH).

The conference began at Trinity in 2005 as a way for history majors and minors at Christian universities in the Chicago area to meet, to share their research, and to discuss issues of faith and scholarship.

Since then, more than a dozen Trinity students and more than 80 students overall from Goshen College, Grace College, Huntington College, Judson University, Olivet Nazarene University, and Trinity International University have presented their research.

This year, Trinity was represented by Sarah Anderson ’15 of Frankfort, Illinois. She presented her paper “A Change of Perspective: How World War II Freed Africans of the British Empire.”

The keynote address, “The Future of History Teaching,” was delivered by Dr. Lendol Calder of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.

Other student papers covered the Vietnamese Revolution, the Iranian Revolution, heavy cavalry in the ancient world, the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, and how Starbucks became one of the largest corporations in the world.

Past presenters from Trinity have gone on to careers in law, government, primary and secondary education, and ministry.