FRANCIS J. BREMER

EDUCATION

Degrees:

B.A., Fordham College, 1968

M.A., Columbia University, 1969

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1972

Non-Matriculated:

1970-71, Union Theological Seminary, New York

TEACHING POSITIONS

Primary Employment:

1969-70 Fordham College (adjunct instructor)

1970-71 Richmond College, CUNY (lecturer)

1971-77 Thomas More College (instr., 1971-72; assist. prof., 1972-76; assoc. prof., 1976-77; tenure, 1976)

1977- Millersville University (assoc. prof., 1977-80; prof., 1980-present; tenure, 1980)

Visiting Appointments:

1980 New York University (visiting professor)

1986 Mansfield College, Oxford University (Summer Program of Pa. State Colleges)

1991-92 Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College of Cambridge University and Member of History Faculty, Cambridge University

1997 Visiting Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford University and Member of Theology Faculty, Oxford University

1999 Visiting Fellow, Selwyn College, Cambridge University

ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

1973-76 Director, Humanities Enrichment Program, Thomas More College

1975 Program Chairman, conference on "Puritanism in Old and New England" funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

1976-77 Director of History Cooperative Education, Thomas More College

1979-81 Regional Director, National History Day

1981 Program Chairman, conference on "The Lives of Early Americans," co-sponsored by Millersville University and the Institute for Early American History and Culture

1981-85 Graduate Coordinator, Millersville University History Department

1981-87 Council Member, Pennsylvania Historical Association

1982-2005 Director of Applied History Program, Millersville University

1985-89 Regional Director, National History Day

1990 Program Chairman, April 1991 conference on "Puritanism in Old and New England" co-sponsored by Millersville University, the Institute of Early American History and Culture, and the Massachusetts Historical Society

1992 Chairman, Department of Economics, Millersville University

1994 Program Chairman, Teacher Symposium on Colonial American History to honor Alden T. Vaughan, sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society, Fall 1994

1994-95 Co-Director with Dr. John Morrill of Cambridge University of NEH Summer Seminar for High School Teachers: "Two Faces of Puritanism: John Winthrop and Oliver Cromwell"

1998-99 Program Chairman, September 1999 conference on "The Worlds of John Winthrop: England and New England, 1558-1649" co-sponsored by Millersville University, the Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Massachusetts Historical Society, Indiana University of PA and Clarion University of PA

2003- Chairman, Department of History, Millersville University

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

Editorial Assistant, John Jay Papers (1969-71)

Associate Book Review Editor, Religious Studies Review (1981-84)

Editor, Pennsylvania History (1982-87)

Board of Reviewers, Historical Journal of Massachusetts (1982- )

Editor, The Winthrop Papers for the Massachusetts Historical Society (1987- )

Associate Editor, The New Dictionary of National Biography (1998- )

Editorial Board, The Eliot Tracts (2001- )

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

Books:

• The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards (1976)
• Puritan New England: Essays on Religion, Society and Culture co-editor with Alden T. Vaughan ( 1977)
• Anne Hutchinson: Troubler of the Puritan Zion, editor (1980)
• Puritan Crisis: New England and the English Civil Wars, 1630-1670 (1989)
• Research Guide to Pennsylvania History, co-ed with D. Downey (1993)
• Puritanism: TransAtlantic Perspectives on a 17th Century Anglo-American Faith, editor (1993)
• Shaping New Englands: Puritan Clergymen in 17th Century England and New England ( 1994)
• Congregationalist Communion: Clerical Friendship in the Anglo-American Puritan Community, 1610-1690 (1994)
• The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards, revised edition (1995)
• John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father (2003) – winner, 2003 Book Citation from Colonial Dames of America; winner, 2005 John C. Pollock Award for Christian Biography
• Winthrop Papers: Religious Writings (web edition, 2006)
• The World of John Winthrop: England and New England, 1588-1649, co-editor with Lynn A. Botelho (2005)

• Puritans and Puritanism in the Atlantic World, co-editor with Tom Webster (2006) – named Choice Outstanding Academic Book 2006

Articles:

• "The New Haven Colony and Oliver Cromwell," The Bulletin of the Connecticut Historical Society, 1973
• "Thomas Cobbet's Practical Discourse of Prayer," co-author with Barbara A. Bremer, Essex Institute Historical Collections, 1975
• "A New Errand: Massachusetts Puritans and the Founding of Dorchester, South Carolina," Bulletin of the Congregational Library, 1977
• "Thomas Hariot: American Adventurer and Renaissance Scientist," History Today, 1979
• "In Defense of Regicide: John Cotton on the Execution of Charles I," William and Mary Quarterly, 1980
• "The Puritan Self-Image and Enemies Within," Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 1981
• "Increase Mather's Friends: Personal Relations and Politics in the Trans-Atlantic Congregational Network of the Seventeenth Century", American Antiquarian Society Proceedings, 1984
• "The English Context of New England's Seventeenth Century History," New England Quarterly, 1987
• "When? Who? Why? Re-Evaluating a 17th Century Source," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1988
• "Endecott and the Red Cross: Puritan Iconoclasm in 17th Century New England," Journal of American Studies, 1990
• "New England wants to reform the old one," War Times, supplement to The Times (London), 11 April 1992
• "To Live Exemplary Lives: Puritans and Puritan Communities as Lofty Lights," The Seventeenth Century (England), 1992
• "A Further Broadening of 'British' History?," Historical Journal (England), 1993
• "The Growth of Puritanism," timeline in special issue of Christian History on "Puritanism", 1994
• "Puritans in the Pulpit: Center Stage in the Theater of God's Judgement," co-author with Ellen Rydell, History Today, September 1995
• "The Heritage of John Winthrop: Religion along the Stour Valley, 1548-1630," New England Quarterly, 1997 as Walter Muir Whitehill Prize essay
• "The Boxford Lecture in 1620," with Martin Wood, Suffolk Review, 1998
• "William Winthrop and Religious Reform in London, 1529-1582," London Journal, 1999
• "Congregations before Congregationalism: social and spiritual roots of the Cambridge Platform," Bulletin of the Congregational Library, 1999
• “The View from America: New England, the Civil Wars, and Oliver Cromwell,” Cromwelliana (2003)

Essays in Books: History

• "John Winthrop" and "James Savage" in Clyde Wilson, ed., Dictionary Of Literary Biography: American Historians (Gale: Detroit, 1984)
• "John Cotton" in Frank McGill, ed., Great Lives from History: American Series (Salem: Pasadena, 1987)
• "Puritanism" in Mircea Eliade, editor, Encyclopedia of Religion (McMillan: New York, 1987)
• "From the Old World to the New, 1620-1689," in Martin Kaufman, editor, A Guide to the History of Massachusetts (Greenwood: Westport, Ct.; 1988)
• Introduction to Samuel Eliot Morison, Those Misunderstood Puritans (Sun Hill: Atholl, 1992)
• "Perry Miller", "Samuel Eliot Morison", and "Edmund S. Morgan" in The Encyclopedia of Historiography (Greenwood: Westport, Ct.; 1998)
• "Simon Bradstreet" and "Cecil Calvert" in Dictionary of National Biography: Supplement (1993)
• "John Davenport", "Thomas Dudley," "William Brewster," "John Winthrop Jr," "Isaac Allerton," "Thomas Danforth," "John Wilson," and "John Wheelwright" in American National Biography (1998)
• "Puritan New England," "John Winthrop" in The Encyclopedia of New England Culture (2005)
• "William Alabaster," John Allin," "Charles Chauncy," "John Davenport," "Richard Denton," "Henry Dunster," "Nathaniel Eaton," "John Endecott," "Leonard Hoar," "Increase Mather," "Nathaniel Mather," "Samuel Mather," "John Norton," "Thomas Parker," "George Phillips," "Henry Whitfield," "Roger Williams," "John Cotton," John Winthrop" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press: Oxford; 2004)
• "Cotton Mather" in Encyclopedia of the Reformation (forthcoming)
• "The County of Massachusetts: the Governance of John Winthrop's Suffolk and the Shaping of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ," in Francis J. Bremer and Lynn Botelho, eds., The World of John Winthrop: England and New England, 1588-1649 (2005)

Major Papers:

• "The Anglo-American Congregational Community, 1620-1775," Organization of American Historians, 1976
• "From the Old World to the New: Massachusetts, 1620-1689," John F. Kennedy Library, 1985
• "Endecott and the Red Cross: Political and Religious Symbols in the Popular Culture of 17th Century Anglo-American Puritanism," Catholic Historical Association, 1986
• "From Friends to Allies: Changing Patterns of Influence in Anglo-American Congregationalism," American Historical Association, 1988
• "To Live Exemplary Lives: Puritans and Puritan Communities as Lofty Lights," Conference on Puritanism in Old and New England sponsored by Massachusetts Historical Society and the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1991
• "Wyntropp: The English Background of Governor John Winthrop," Boston Area Seminar in Early American History, 1992
• "Religion in Colonial America," American Antiquarian Society Symposium on Colonial America, 1994
• "The Winthrops: A Family Tale with Observations on English and American History," Keynote Address at St. Francis College Undergraduate Research Conference, April 1995
• "Currents of Reform in the Stour Valley: The Winthrops of Groton,1553-1630," North America Conference on British Studies, October 1995
• "The Changing Face of Puritanism: Religion along the Stour Valley, 1548-1630," Institute of Historical Research (London) Seminar on The Religious History of Britain, 1996
• "William Winthrop and Religious Reform in London, 1529-1582," Cambridge University Seminar on Tudor-Stuart Britain, 1996
• "How new was New England? Rethinking Colonial America from an English perspective," University Lecture, Oxford University, May 1997
• "William Alabaster: A Pilgrim's Progress from Protestantism to Popery -- and Back," Princeton University Seminar in British History, December 1997
• "Congregations before Congregationalism: social and spiritual roots of the Cambridge Platform," keynote address at celebration of 350^th Anniversary of the Cambridge Platform, October 1998
• "A Tale of Two Englands: reasons for remembering John Winthrop and his family," Conference in Commemoration of John Winthrop, Suffolk, England, June 1999
• "Searching for the elusive 'puritanism': A quest through the worlds of John Winthrop," Anglo-American Conference on Early American History, Brunel University, England, June 1999
• "John Winthrop and the Path to England's Civil Wars," British Early American History Group Annual Meeting, Cambridge England, 2000.
• "Searching for puritans and the meaning of puritanism in the Stour Valley," Institute of Historical Research (London) Seminar on the Religious History of England from the 15^th to the 18^th Centuries, 2001.
• "English Seeds Transplanted: the Formation of Governance in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1636," co-author with Michael Braddick, Boston Area Seminar in Early American History, 2001.
• "Searching for Foxe in New England," keynote address to international John Foxe Conference, Boston, England, 2001
• "Remembering - and Forgetting - John Winthrop and the Puritan Founders," Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003
• “Faith of a Founder: The Social Gospel of John Winthrop,” First and Second Church Boston, 2003; broadcast on C-SPAN and available on tape.
• “Learning from one’s children? The Influence of John Winthrop and New England on Oliver Cromwell’s England,” University of East Anglia, 2003
• “Looking East: What English History Tells Us About John Winthrop and Early New England,” Oxford University, 2003
• “Remembering -- and Forgetting – John Winthrop and the Puritan Founders,” revised, Old South Church, Boston, 2004

• "John Davenport: The American Career of an International Puritan," Stamford Historical Society, 2004
• "Boston's Bastion: The Founding Generation and the Massachusetts Bay Charter," Boston Charter Day Address, Massachusetts Archives, 2005
• "John Davenport and Universal Education in an Infant Plantation," Yale University, 2005
• "John Winthrop's Vision and the Evolution of the Boston Community," Boston Charter Day Address, Old North Church, 2005.
• “Learning John Winthrop," Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, 2005
• “Defining a Puritan: The Case of John Davenport,” Richmond (VA), 2006
• “Pilgrims’ Progress: Pilgrims’ Success,” Smithsonian Institution, 2006
• “What was it like to be a Puritan? Reflections on the Life of John Winthrop,” Wrentham (MA) Historical Society, 2007

Manuscript Consultant: Institute of Early American History and Culture, American Philosophical Society, University of Tennessee Press, Syracuse University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of Massachusetts Press, University of Oklahoma Press, Northeastern University Press, University Press of New England, Library of America

Reviews in: Albion, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, William and Mary Quarterly, New England Quarterly, Review of Religious Studies, New York History, History: Reviews of New Books, Bulletin of the Congregational Library, Virginia Seminary Review, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Journal of Church and State, Early American Literature, Thought, Catholic Historical Review, Historical Journal (Eng), Journal of Southern History, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Fides et Historia, The Eighteenth Century, Reviews in American History, Times (London) Literary Supplement .

Essays in Books: Non-History

• "W. J. Burley" and "Colin Dexter" in Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction (Pasadena, 1989)
• "Dick Francis" in Encyclopedia of World Authors (Pasadena, 1990)
• Essays on Angus Wilson's Anglo Saxon Attitudes and No Laughing Matter, A. J. Cronin's The Citadel and The Keys of the Kingdom, C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers and David Lodge's Changing Places in Masterplots: Encyclopedia of Literary Characters, II (Pasadena, 1991)

HONORS AND AWARDS

Graduate Student Awards

1968 Herbert H. Lehman Fellowship

1970 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

State and National and Other Awards

1975 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

1978 American Philosophical Society Research Grant

1980 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

1981 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Academic Service Award

1983 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Distinguished Faculty Award

1990 State System of Higher Education Faculty Development Grant

1991 Fulbright Fellow

1994 State System of Higher Education Faculty Development Grant

1994 Winthrop Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society

1994 National Endowment for Humanities Grant for a 1995 Summer Seminar for High School Teachers at Millersville U

1997 State System of Higher Education Faculty Development Grant

1997 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

1999 State System of Higher Education Inter-Institutional Grant

1999 CAPE Incentive Grant for Technological Innovation in Education

2003 Book Citation from Colonial Dames of America (John Winthrop)

2005 John C. Pollock Award for Christian Biography (John Winthrop)

2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year (Puritans and Puritanism in the Atlantic World)

Elected Memberships

1991 Fellow, David and Mary Eccles Center for American Studies of the British Library

1994 Colonial Society of Massachusetts

1996 Massachusetts Historical Society

2001-2004 Council, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

2004 American Antiquarian Society

WORK IN PROGRESS

Edition of Richard Rogers, The Seven Treatises, co-editor with Susan Ortmann

Puritans: An Attempt to Erect the Kingdom of God in America, under contract with Oxford University Press

Full length biography of John Davenport

Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction, under contract with Oxford University Press