Aug 19, 2025 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, Abolition, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Donald Trump, Executive Orders, Founder's Rhetoric, Fugitive Slave Act, Inherent Rights, Insurrection, January 6, 2021, Jim Crow, John C. Calhoun, Martin Luther King, Jr., Reconstruction, Second Ku Klux Klan, Slavery, Systemic Racism, Voting Rights, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger Below is an excerpt of an essay of mine that was published in the Summer, 2025 issue of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, an issue which is devoted to white Christian nationalism and education. A link to the complete article can...
Feb 3, 2025 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American Historical Association, American History, Black Reconstruction, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Communism, Constitution, Culture War, Donald Trump, Executive Orders, Fascism, History and Politics, Indoctrination, Jerry Davis, John C. Calhoun, Kevin Kruse, Reconstruction, Slavery |
by William Trollinger Last Wednesday the Trump Administration issued an executive order entitled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” which has as its goal to end “federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in...
Nov 26, 2024 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American Exceptionalism, American History, Christian Nationalism, Donald Trump, English, Mayflower, Native Americans, New Apostolic Reformation, Pilgrims, Project 2025, Religious Freedom, Slavery, Squanto, Thanksgiving, Thomas Hunt, Tom Cotton, Wampanoag People, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger First-grader Thanksgiving Drawing. Via BlogHoppin. Anyone who is paying attention at all knows that White Christian Nationalism is alive and well and on the rise in America. It’s everywhere, and these folks are thrilled that Trump the...
Mar 8, 2024 | 1619 Project, Christian Nationalism, Communism, James Darsey, Joseph McCarthy, Racism, Rodney Kennedy, Shou Zi Chew, Slavery, Systemic Racism, TikTok, Tom Cotton |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which...
Aug 6, 2021 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American History, Black History, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Donald Trump, History and Politics, Insurrection, Joe Biden, Kevin Kruse, Plagiarism, Racism, Reconstruction, Slavery, Strom Thurmond, Timothy Snyder, Tom Cotton, Tucker Carlson, White Evangelicals, White Fragility, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Women for Segregation. Image via the Equal Justice Initiative. One thing is for certain. White Americans need lots of tender loving care. The latest campaign to prop up white folks has its origins in the furious response to the 1619 Project, a...
Jan 28, 2021 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American History, Anticommunism, Arkansas, Black Reconstruction, Capitol Riot, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Cold War, College of the Ozarks, Communism, Confederacy, Confederate Statues, Constitution, Constitutional Convention, David Blight, Declaration of Independence, Donald Trump, Fascism, Franklin Roosevelt, Higher Education, Hillsdale College, History, History and Politics, Insurrection, Jerry Davis, Jim Crow, John C. Calhoun, Martin Luther King, Mussolini, New Deal, Politics, Racism, Reconstruction, Revisionism, Slavery, Socialism, Strom Thurmond, Teddy Roosevelt, Tom Cotton, Uncategorized, W.E.B. DuBois, White Nationalism, White Supremacy, Woodrow Wilson, World War II |
by William Trollinger An escaped slave named Peter showing his scarred back at a medical examination in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863. Library of Congress. Martin Luther King’s February 12 1965 speech in Selma, Alabama. Horace Cort/AP. The 1619 Project – the...