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 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...
Sep 9, 2025 | Anti-Defamation League, Anti-Racism, Booker T. Washington, Censorship, Darwin-to-Hitler Trope, Democracy, Eugenics, Jerry Bergman, Reconstruction, Scopes Trial, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Teddy Roosevelt, The Bible and Creationism, Vietnam War, White Supremacy, William Jennings Bryan |
by William Trollinger People gathering at the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marian, Indiana, 1939. Image via NPR. Jerry Bergman is at it again. And it’s as bad as ever. A prolific writer for the Answers Research Journal and similar creationist outlets,...
Aug 19, 2025 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, Abolition, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Donald Trump, Executive Orders, Founder's Rhetoric, Fugitive Slave Act, Inherent Rights, Insurrection, January 6, 2021, Jim Crow, John C. Calhoun, Martin Luther King, Jr., Reconstruction, Second Ku Klux Klan, Slavery, Systemic Racism, Voting Rights, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger Below is an excerpt of an essay of mine that was published in the Summer, 2025 issue of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, an issue which is devoted to white Christian nationalism and education. A link to the complete article can...
May 27, 2025 | Bob Jones, Bob Jones University, Camille Lewis, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Evangelical Rhetoric, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Roles, KKK-Fundamentalism, Klandamentalism, Modern Woman Sermon, Religion and Politics, Rhetoric, Sean Wilentz, Second Ku Klux Klan, Stollenwerck Panorama, Wayne Flynt, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
An Interview with Camille Kaminski Lewis by William Trollinger Camille Kaminski Lewis is an Assistant Professor 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...
May 20, 2025 | American Exceptionalism, Andrew Jackson, Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Immigration, Consubstantiality, Demonized Populism, Donald Trump, J. Frank Norris, John Fea, Know-Nothing Party, MAGA, Natasha Lennard, Native Americans, Nativism, Populism, Proud Boys, Racism, Rodney Kennedy, Second Ku Klux Klan, White Christian Nationalism, 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...
