Tenor of Our Times is an annual journal publishing the work of current and past Harding University students on historical and social science topics and is jointly produced by the Eta Phi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta and the History and Political Science department. The title of the journal originates with former department chairman, Dr. Raymond Muncy, who often said, “Historians reflect the tenor of their times.” Tenor represents the best scholarship by our undergraduate students and can be on any historical topic.
Current Volume: Volume 15 (2026)
Editor's Note
Editor's Note
William DeLoach
Section 1: Year in Review
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. JR Duke
David T. Richardson
Alumni Spotlight Kathleen Larkin
David T. Richardson
Spotlight - Mecca Mejor
William DeLoach
History Day at Harding 2026
Julie E Harris
Section 2: America 250
Speculative Spies: The Pinkerton National Detective Agency, Business, and Labor Conflict in the Gilded Age
Luke M. Gibbs
From Stone Campbell to Brick and Mortar: A Look into the Origins of Restoration Colleges
Donald C. Matthews
One of These Things is Not Like the Other: Differences Between the New Deal and Great Society
Brayden T. Gallagher
Living Letters
Jacob Rooney
Section 3: Life & Letters in the Renaissance
For They Shall Inherit the Earth: Humility and the Constructed Etruscan and Carolingian Origins of the Medici
William M. DeLoach
Women with Will: The Power of the Women of the Renaissance
Madeline E. Stewart
Section 4: Kingship & Resistance
Long Live the Good King: A Niebuhrian Analysis of Arthur’s Ethical Kingship in The Once and Future King
Camille Bewley
Section 5: Migration Station
“Opening Up the Flood Gates:” A Review of the International Response to the Hungarian Refugee Crisis 1956-57.
Jacob N. Anderson
The Emigration Equation: A Study On Why Individuals Emigrate
Anielka S. Perez Brenes
Editors
- Chief Editor
- Max DeLoach
- Copy Editor
- Madeline E. Stewart
- Student Review Board Editor
- Jacob Rooney
- Aesthetics Editor
- Mathias Thompson
- Advertising Editor
- David T. Richardson
Raymond L. Muncy Scholarship
The Raymond L. Muncy Scholarship is a one-time financial award for those undergraduate students at Harding University majoring in History who demonstrate exceptional scholarship, research, and Christian character. The scholarship was created to honor the late Raymond L. Muncy, chairman of the Department of History and Social Sciences from 1965-1993. His teaching, mentoring, and scholarship modeled the best in Christian education. Applied toward tuition, the award is granted over the span of a single academic year and is presented annually at the Department of History and Political Science Banquet.
For the 2026-2027 year, the recipients of the Muncy scholarship are David Granberg and Houston Runions.
