Robert Spinney, Ph.D.
Robert Spinney currently serves as Assistant Professor of History at Patrick Henry College (Purcellville, VA). He and his wife of twenty-one years, Caroline, have five children.Dr. Spinney graduated Cum Laude in an honors major in 1983 with a B.A. in Government and History from Harvard University and has received the M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University. He has taught at a variety of institutions including Patrick Henry College, Volunteer State Community College, Vanderbilt University, and Trinity International University.
Among his writings are numerous ministry-related booklets published by Tulip Books (www.tulipbooks.com); City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago (Northern Illinois University Press, 2000); World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront (University of Tennessee Press, 1998); as well as as well as a book reviews of Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick, in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 64 (Winter 2005): 362-364; The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict, in Christian Scholar’s Review 27 (Spring 1998): 394-396; The Sixties Spiritual Awakening: American Religion Moving from Modern to Postmodern and Before Our Time: A Theory of the Sixties From a Religious, Social, and Psychoanalytic Perspective, in Christian Scholar’s Review 27 (Fall 1997): 139-141; The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950s, in Christian Scholar’s Review 26 (Winter 1996): 229-230 The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968, in Filson Club History Quarterly 70 (October 1996): 432-434; “Municipal Government in Nashville, Tennessee, 1938-1951: World War II and the Growth of the Public Sector,” Journal of Southern History 51 (February 1995): 77-112; “The Jewish Community in Nashville, 1939-1949,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Winter 1993): 225-241.