Feb 15, 2019 | Anticommunism, Birth of a Nation, Bolshevism, Culture War, Great War, Harlem Hellfighters, Immigration, KKK, Lloyd Clay, Lynching, Marxism, NAACP, Politics, Racism, Red Scare, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger 1919 was quite the dreadful year. The Red Scare, and the Red Summer. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. “Whites stoning Negro to...
Feb 13, 2019 | Birth of a Nation, Bolshevism, Culture War, Great War, Immigration, J. Edgar Hoover, Labor Unions, Marxism, Red Scare, Woodrow Wilson |
by William Trollinger In some ways, 2019 looks like 1919. Too much so, actually. On November 11, 1918, the Great War – with its conflicts across the globe, with its 15 to 18 million dead – officially came to an end. In America there were great celebrations. And yet,...
Dec 19, 2018 | Birth of a Nation, Dayton, History, KKK, Ohio, Racism, University of Dayton, White Supremacy |
KKK Demonstration in Dayton, OH on September 21, 1923. Photo courtesy of Dayton Metro Library. 95 years ago today my home institution – the University of Dayton (UD) – was bombed. And while some specifics have changed, the general reasons why UD was bombed remain with...
Oct 26, 2018 | Birth of a Nation, Civil War, D.W. Griffith, Emanuel AME Church, History, intolerance, KKK, Neo-Nazis, Politics, Racism, Reconstruction, Redemption, Robert E. Lee, Slavery, Statement on Confederate Monuments, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger “Redemption.” In Christian theology, it is a powerful and hopeful term referring to the deliverance from sin and its consequences. But in the context of U.S. history, “Redemption” is a word that has much less positive connotations. Thursday night...
