History Professor's Sabbatical in California

Prof. Jeff Sikkenga is spending his sabbatical this year in California. Along with visiting historical sites such as Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois (see photo) and Mark Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, he is working on a book on John Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration and finishing a revised second edition of History of American Political Thought. In the fall, he was a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and is a visiting professor at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy in Malibu this spring.