David Hein

DAVID HEIN is Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (MI) and the author of Teaching the Virtues (2025). In addition, he is a trustee of Saint James School (MD) and a trustee of the George C. Marshall Foundation (VA). He was educated at St Paul's School, Brooklandville, MD (Outstanding Alumnus, 2015), the University of Virginia, and the University of Chicago. At his undergraduate school, UVA, he was elected to membership in the Raven Society and Omicron Delta Kappa; he was, in addition, an Echols Scholar and a Lawn Resident. During the summer following his third undergraduate year, he was an English-Speaking Union Scholar at Oxford University, where he read British literature with the legendary tutor Dorothy Bednarowska. Professor Hein’s PhD thesis became the first of his 11 books: "Essays on Lincoln's Faith and Politics" (coauthor with Hans J. Morgenthau; 1983), recently called a "pioneering" study in the Lincoln field by historian Mark Noll. An edited collection, "Religion and Politics in Maryland on the Eve of the Civil War: The Letters of W. Wilkins Davis" (rev. ed., 2009), won an award from the American Association for State and Local History. "The Episcopalians" (2004) was a selection of the History Book Club. His writings also include 75 articles in the Journal of Military History, the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, ARMY, Mississippi Quarterly, Modern Age, the New Criterion, and other periodicals. He has been interviewed by NBC News, the PBS NewsHour, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Associated Press, Religion News Service, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and other media outlets. During his professorial years, he was twice selected to receive his institution's highest awards for teaching and scholarship. In 2011 he was nominated and elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) in recognition of his "original" and "significant" contributions to historical scholarship. Dr Hein has delivered several endowed lectures, including the Jaak Seynaeve Memorial Lecture at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 2012.