May 27, 2019 | Charlottesville, Dayton, intolerance, KKK, Racial Justice, Racism, Rodney Kennedy, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Hundreds of Counter-Protestors Demonstrate Against the KKK in Dayton, Ohio. Image source: PressFrom On Saturday afternoon, the Honorable Sacred Knights of Madison, Indiana held a rally in Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton. “Rally” is an...
May 21, 2019 | Dayton, Donald Trump, intolerance, KKK, Politics, Racial Justice, Racism, Talk To Me Program, Uncategorized, WCSU, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Flier for William Trollinger’s upcoming presentation at Precious Blood Church in Dayton, Ohio. This Saturday, May 25, the Klan-affiliated Honorable Sacred Knights of Madison, Indiana will be holding a rally at Courthouse Square in downtown...
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...
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...
Nov 16, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Flood Geology, Genesis, Historical Science, Inerrancy, KKK, Meghan Henning, Museums, Observational Science, Rhetoric, Righting America, Science, University of Dayton |
by William Trollinger What will happen to museums in this post-truth age? Is there a productive way in which to respond to culture war rhetoric? These were but two of the questions Sue and I were asked in response to our presentation last Wednesday on “Righting and...
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...
