Nov 4, 2024 | American Democracy, Barack Obama, Brian L Ott, David Blight, Dissent, Donald Trump, Flannery O'Connor, Greg Dickinson, Hush Harbors, James C. Scott, Jim Crow, Jonathan Haidt, Maggie Haberman, Patrick Healy, Racism, Robert L. Ivie, Social Media, Vorris L. Nunley, White Evangelical Racism, White Men, White Privilege, White Supremacy, Zora Neale Hurston |
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...
Oct 3, 2023 | American History, Biblical Literalism, Charles Payne, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, George Wallace, Historical Fallacy, James Meredith, Jim Crow, John Lewis, June Johnson, Leon Hannaford, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, Percy Julian, Racism, Redistricting, Robert Rowland, Rodney Kennedy, Ron DeSantis, Segregation, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Slavery, Supreme Court, Systemic Racism, Trey Lamar, Voting Rights Act, 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...
Jun 15, 2022 | American History, Biblical Interpretation, Billy Graham, Civil Rights Movement, Colorblindness, George Wallace, History, J. Russell Hawkins, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Jim Crow, Race and Religion, Racial Justice, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Southern White Evangelicals, The Bible Told Them So, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger J. Russell (“Rusty”) Hawkins is Professor of Humanities and History in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University. He is also author of The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy, which...
May 12, 2021 | Civil Rights Movement Archive, Donald Trump, Jerry Falwell Jr., Jim Crow, Literacy Tests, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Rodney Clapp, Rodney Hessinger, Southern Voters, Trump Supporters, Voting Rights Act, Will Campbell |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
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...
