ROCKWALL,TX. (October 13, 2014) The Rock Wall Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Texas Society-District III held its October 4 meeting at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Heath.
Vice Regent Linda Smith introduced speaker, Dr. Brian R. Franklin, SMU Center for Presidential Studies on “Religion and Empire.”
Dr. Franklin discussed his research on American religious and political history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and missionary work of the Anglican Church of England in the American colonies.
Franklin joined the Center for Presidential History as Associate Director after completing his doctoral work at Texas A & M University. He has presented his work at the annual meetings of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, American Society of Church History, and the British Scholar
Society, and has published reviews in the Journal of the Early Republic and Southern Historian. Dr. Franklin’s current project, America’s Missions: The Home Missions Movement and the Story of the Early Republic, explores the role of Protestant mission societies in shaping the political, social, and regional world of the early republic.
Members of Rock Wall Chapter of the DAR donned pink ribbons at the October 4 meeting to raise awareness for breast cancer and support Regent Mindy Lovell, who is currently battling this disease.
Submitted by Joy Greenwalt.
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