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...
Oct 18, 2019 | American History, Camille Lewis, Critical Race Theory, Hegemon, History, Politics, Racism, Reconstruction, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Slavery, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by Camille Lewis Camille Kaminski Lewis is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Rhetorical Studies with a minor in American Studies....
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...
