Background
Hamm, Thomas Douglas was born on January 8, 1957 in New Castle, Indiana, United States. Son of James Stewart and Lois Diane (Knotts) Hamm.
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The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian, where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior. Praised for its rich insight and wide-ranging perspective, The Quakers in America is a penetrating account of an influential, vibrant, and often misunderstood religious sect.
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"Hamm has simply produced the best book on Quaker history in recent years." ―Quaker History "... will stand as one of the most important works in the field." ―American Historical Review
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"For Earlham, Hamm has written one of the best single-volume college histories—extremely well researched, complexly interpreted, and fluidly written."Â —The Journal of American History "... highly readable and entertaining... " —Indiana Magazine of History "As well as being a history of Quaker education, it also has insights for the history of higher education itself. The book remains engaging throughout and readers will be challenged by the contemporary nature of many of the debates concerning religious and social issues that have caused dissension on the Earlham campus and within Quakerism both currently and in past years." —The Southern Friend "Earlhamites and other Quakers should read this book and ponder it!" —Quaker Life In celebration of Earlham’s sesquicentennial, here is the history of one of the few nationally ranked liberal arts colleges that still retains a strong religious identity. Earlham College was founded by Indiana Quakers in 1847 for the "guarded religious education of the children of Friends" and became the prestigious school of the twentieth century only after struggles which pitted traditionalists and moderates in a battle of revivalism and primitivism against change and reform.
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Hamm, Thomas Douglas was born on January 8, 1957 in New Castle, Indiana, United States. Son of James Stewart and Lois Diane (Knotts) Hamm.
Bachelor, Butler University, 1979. Master of Arts, Indiana University, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1985.
Editorial assistant, Journal American History, Bloomington, Indiana, 1981-1984; visiting assistant professor, Indiana U., Indianapolis, 1985-1987; archivist, associate professor of history, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, since 1987. Consultant Conner Prairie, Noblesville, Indiana, since 1990, Historic Landmarks ofInd., Indianapolis, since 1992, Henry County History Society, New Castle, since 1985.
( "For Earlham, Hamm has written one of the best single-v...)
( The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of th...)
( "Hamm has simply produced the best book on Quaker histo...)
( "Hamm has simply produced the best book on Quaker histo...)
Member executive committee Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, Muncie, 1992—1993, since 2002. Chairman genealogical public committee Indiana History Society, Indianapolis, 1992—1995, member library committee, 1995—2001. Member Organization American Historians, American History Association, American Society Church History, Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists (convener 1988-1990, 2000-2006), Indiana Association Historians (executive board 1990-1992, president-elect 1995, president 1995-1996), Society Indiana Archivists (president 1994-1995, 2008-2009), Indiana Library. and History Board (president 1990—2009), Pendle Hill (board trustees).
Married Mary Louise Reynolds, May 12, 1984.