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...
Jul 7, 2020 | Christian Ethics, Christian Right, Civil War, Colonization, Constantine, Crusades, Darwin, History, Jesus, Racism, Sermon on the Mount, Sin, Slavery |
by Susan Trollinger Modern Semi-Truck on a Twilight Highway. Image courtesy of skuid.com Traveling east on I-70 the other day, Bill and I passed a semi with a sticker on the back of its trailer. It was a simple graphic on which appeared a four-lane road (drawn in...
Jun 7, 2019 | Civil War, Confederate Statues, KKK, McKinley Birthplace Museum, Racism, Slavery, Uncategorized, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Last Sunday, I was at the William McKinley Memorial Museum in Niles, Ohio – McKinley’s birthplace – to speak on “Statues, Flags, and the Ongoing Battle Over the Civil War.” Given McKinley’s role as a Union soldier, it seemed quite the appropriate...
May 9, 2019 | Adolf Hitler, Barack Obama, Billy Graham, Billy Sunday, Bob Jones University, Camille Lewis, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Kenneth Burke, Neo-Nazis, Politics, Racism, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Uncategorized, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, White Supremacy, William Barber, William Jennings Bryan, William Ward Ayer |
by Camille Lewis Camille Kaminski Lewis is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Rhetorical Studies with a minor in American Studies. Her...
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...
