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by William Trollinger Photo by Patricia Engler, via Answers in Genesis Sometimes this blog simply writes itself. A few weeks ago we ran a post on Kathleen Wellman’s Hijacking History: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why It Matters (Oxford, 2021). In this...
Sep 6, 2021 | American Creationism, Answers in Genesis, Anticommunism, Bodie Hodge, Butler Act, Carl R. Weinberg, Clarence Darrow, Conservative Evangelicals, Creationism, Culture War, Darwin, David Goldstein, Donald Trump, Evolution, Frederick Engels, George McCready Price, Henry Morris, Institute for Creation Science, J. Frank Norris, John Scopes, Karl Marx, Ken Ham, Labor Battles, Martha Moore Avery, Marxism, Red Dynamite, Religion and Science, Robert Jeffress, Satanism, Science, Scopes Trial, Secularism, Social Evolution, Socialism, William Bell Riley, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Book Cover for Carl R. Weinberg’s Red Dynamite: Creationism: Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America (2021, Cornell University Press) Carl R. Weinberg is Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor...
Aug 19, 2019 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Carl R. Weinberg, Christian Right, Church and State, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Evolution, Ken Ham, Labor Unions, Marxism, National Education Association, Observational Science, Politics, Public Schools, Religion and Science, Rhetoric, Science, Secularism, Sin, Young Earth Creationism |
by Carl R. Weinberg Today’s post comes from Carl R. Weinberg, Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the author of Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois...
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...
Feb 13, 2019 | Birth of a Nation, Bolshevism, Culture War, Great War, Immigration, J. Edgar Hoover, Labor Unions, Marxism, Red Scare, Woodrow Wilson |
by William Trollinger In some ways, 2019 looks like 1919. Too much so, actually. On November 11, 1918, the Great War – with its conflicts across the globe, with its 15 to 18 million dead – officially came to an end. In America there were great celebrations. And yet,...
