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...
Nov 26, 2025 | American History, Columbian Exchange, Culture War, History and Politics, Jonathan Zimmerman, Michael Medved, Native Americans, Pilgrims, PragerU, Propaganda, Revisionism, Thanksgiving, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger “The First Thanksgiving- 1621” Painting by Karen Rinaldo. Image via Plymouth400Inc. PragerU is not a university. It is not an accredited educational institution. It is, instead, a slick operation that produces all sorts of right-wing...
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...
Jun 24, 2025 | Andrew McNeely, Apocalypticism, Catholic Fundamentalism, Chelsea Ebin, Christendom College, Church History, Church Militant, Crisis Magazine, Dispensational Premillennialism, Donald Trump, Ecumenism, EWTN, George Marsden, Gommar Depauw, History and Politics, Joel Carpenter, Laura Tringali, Leonard Feeney, Mark Massa, Modernism, Mother Angelica, Sean Martin, Sectarianism, Secularism, Thomas Kuhn, Tridentine Catholicism, Vatican II |
by Sean Swain Martin, Andrew McNeely, and Laura M. Tringali Book Cover for Mark S. Massa, S.J.’s Catholic Fundamentalism in America. Image via Amazon. Editor’s Note: The phenomenon of Catholic fundamentalism is finally starting to receive the scholarly...
Feb 3, 2025 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American Historical Association, American History, Black Reconstruction, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Communism, Constitution, Culture War, Donald Trump, Executive Orders, Fascism, History and Politics, Indoctrination, Jerry Davis, John C. Calhoun, Kevin Kruse, Reconstruction, Slavery |
by William Trollinger Last Wednesday the Trump Administration issued an executive order entitled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” which has as its goal to end “federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in...
Jul 23, 2024 | American Democracy, Atheist Delusions, Christian Nationalism, Conservative Evangelicals, Conservative Ideology, David Barton, David Bentley Hart, Evangelical Rhetoric, Founding Fathers, Golden Rule, History, History and Politics, James Klippenberg, Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Narrative Patterns, Norman Rockwell, Political Rhetoric, Religion and Politics, Religious Conservatism, Robert Jeffress, Tom Cotton |
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...
