Jul 1, 2021 | Abortion, American History, Catholic Peace Fellowship, Catholicism, Civil Rights Movement, Clergy Abuse Crisis, Conscience, Conscientious Objector, Contraception, Culture War, Divorce, Follow Your Conscience, History, Humana Vitae, Joe Biden, LGBT Issues, Moral Formation, Patrick O’Boyle, Pete Cajka, Politics, Religion and Politics, Secularism, Shane MacCarthy, Thomas Aquinas, Vietnam War |
by William Trollinger Peter Cajka is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. from Boston College, and before that he was an undergraduate student here at the University of Dayton, where I...
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...
Jan 11, 2021 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, 1861, American Exceptionalism, American History, Black Lives Matter, Capitol Riot, College of the Ozarks, Confederacy, Conservative Evangelicals, Daniel Immerwahr, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Insurrection, Jerry Davis, Joe Biden, Nicholas Kristof, Politics, Racism, Raymond Screws, Ronald Reagan, Slavery, The New York Times, Washington Post, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by Raymond D. Screws Raymond D. Screws earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 2003. He also has an MA from Pittsburg State University and a B.A. from School (now College) of the Ozarks, where his advisor was William Trollinger. Throughout his...
Jan 5, 2021 | Ad Hominem Attacks, American History, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Civil War, Confederate Statues, David Blight, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Roles, Georgia Purdom, History, Jim Crow, Lost Cause Discourse, Reconstruction, Rhetoric, Righting America, Secession, Slavery, Visual Rhetoric, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger Statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, VA. Photo by Salwan Georges of The Washington Post (2020) The other day, I was reading David Blight’s fine book, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, in preparation for a project that I am going...
Nov 25, 2020 | 1619 Project, American Exceptionalism, American History, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Fox News, History, Mayflower, Native Americans, Pilgrims, Politics, Slavery, Squanto, Thanksgiving, Tom Cotton, William Bradford |
by William Trollinger Senator Tom Cotton. Image courtesy of Newsweek. The masters of Twitter and the Blogosphere are once again dismantling Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas and Donald Trump wannabe. Cotton might have two Harvard degrees, but he is certainly proving...
Sep 25, 2020 | American History, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Darwin, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, God in a Nutshell, History, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, Politics, QAnon, Racism, Slavery, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Trey Smith, Vaccination, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Trey Smith’s The Coming Storm: A Donald J. Trump Documentary. Image via Youtube “Many, many soldiers . . . died for the freedom of many people of other shades and colors, some of whom were sold out by their own kinsmen and...
