Dec 2, 2025 | Anti-Racism, Brenda Wineapple, Civil Rights Movement, Dayton, Evangelical History, Evolution, Glenn Branch, History, History and Politics, Jerry Bergman, Journal of Creation, Journal of Negro History, Lynching, National Center for Science Education, Scopes Trial, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Teddy Roosevelt, The Other Side of the Scopes Trial, White Evangelical Racism, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson |
by William Trollinger Burning of 80 ft. cross, KKK, August 9, 1925. Jerry Bergman’s campaign to invent an anti-racist William Jennings Bryan continues apace. This time, it involves a review of Brenda Wineapple’s best-selling book on the Scopes Trial. It is...
Sep 9, 2025 | Anti-Defamation League, Anti-Racism, Booker T. Washington, Censorship, Darwin-to-Hitler Trope, Democracy, Eugenics, Jerry Bergman, Reconstruction, Scopes Trial, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Teddy Roosevelt, The Bible and Creationism, Vietnam War, White Supremacy, William Jennings Bryan |
by William Trollinger People gathering at the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marian, Indiana, 1939. Image via NPR. Jerry Bergman is at it again. And it’s as bad as ever. A prolific writer for the Answers Research Journal and similar creationist outlets,...