Nov 18, 2025 | Adam Laats, Age of the Earth, Andrew Carnegie, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Creation Museum, David Barton, David Blight, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Donald Trump, Emotion, Evangelical History, Frederick Douglass, Herbert McCabe, Higher Education, History, History and Politics, Jill Lepore, Jim Crow, John Rockefeller, Lauren Berlant, Lynn Hunt, MAGA, MAGA Evangelicals, Memory, Paula White, Pepe the Frog, PragerU, Pseudoarcheology, Reconstruction, Robert Jeffress, Robert Penn Warren, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregation, Thurgood Marshall, White Supremacy |
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 he...
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...
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 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...
Jun 19, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Black Lives Matter, Confederate Statues, Fox News, George Floyd, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Papa Johns, Racial Justice, Racism, SpongeBob SquarePants, Tucker Carlson, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger SpongeBob SquarePants. Image courtesy of Nickelodeon. This past Saturday Nickolodeon celebrated Pride Month by very strongly suggesting that their popular cartoon character, SpongeBob SquarePants, is gay. LGBTQ+ activists immediately...
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...
