Preston Jones
Dr. Preston Jones is a professor of history at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. He received his PhD at the University of Ottawa in 1999. His dissertation explored the relationship of the Bible to Canadian Culture in the late 19 th century. He has received several awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship for study in Canada and a fellowship with the Pew Program in Religion and American History. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1986 to 1990. Because of his interest in seeing the U.S. military end its involvement with the Southeast Asian brothel industry, he served on the advisory board of ECPAT-USA, an international organization devoted to combating child prostitution. Dr. Jones has run 22 marathons.
Bio last updated April 30th, 2019.
Articles by Preston Jones
Lionel Groulx
By Preston Jones
March 17, 2017
Lionel-Adolphe Groulx did not only write history, he made it, stoking the flame of Quebec nationalism. Groulx was a historian who believed that pride in the past would give French Canadians confidence in their future. Despite thirty-four years as a professor at the University of Montreal, Groulx was no ivory-tower academic.
What mattered most to Groulx was that Quebec should preserve its French language, its French culture, and its Roman Catholic faith Groulx enshrined his vision for Quebec nationalism in his massive Histoire du Canada francais dupuis la Découverte (The History of French Canada Since Discovery), which appeared in several volumes between 1950 and 1952 In 1953, Groulx declared that he loved French Quebec for “the ties of blood and history” that bonded him to it, but that he loved it primarily because of the thousands of Catholic missionaries that it had sent all over the globe Against secularist nationalists, Groulx argued that Quebecers should not speak of their French language as if it could be separated from their Catholic faith