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,...
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...
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...
Dec 15, 2023 | A Fever in the Heartland, Anti-Immigration, Birth of a Nation, Black History, Christian Nationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Dayton, Harry Baujan, Johnson-Reed Act, KKK, Linda Gordon, Lynching, Second Ku Klux Klan, Society of Mary, Timothy Egan, University of Dayton, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. KKK Demonstration in Dayton, OH on September 21, 1923. Photo courtesy of Dayton Metro Library. It was Dec. 19, 1923 – 100 years ago. The first day of Christmas break at...
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...
