May 31, 2022 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Buffalo, Christian Right, Civil Rights Movement, Colorblind Individualism, Colorblindness, Gender Identity, George Floyd, Insurrection, J. Russell Hawkins, January 6, 2021, Joe Biden, Ken Ham, One Blood, One Race, Politics, Racism, Religion and Politics, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Sin, Slavery, The Age of Fracture, The Bible Told Them So, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Cover Image for The Bible Told Them So: How Souther Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy by J. Russell Hawkins (Oxford University Press, 2021) In his terrific 2021 book, The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to...
Aug 30, 2021 | Barack Obama, Biblical Literalism, Carolyn Renee Dupont, Civil War, Fundamentalism, Insurrection, Jason Whitlock, Joe Biden, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, QAnon, Racism, Reconstruction, Satanism, Slavery, Tucker Carlson, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Ken Ham’s August 26, 2021 Facebook post. Every time I think that Ken Ham cannot go any lower, he does. And he takes his followers with him. On his Facebook page, Ham posted this image of a Daily Wire article entitled...
Aug 6, 2021 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American History, Black History, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Donald Trump, History and Politics, Insurrection, Joe Biden, Kevin Kruse, Plagiarism, Racism, Reconstruction, Slavery, Strom Thurmond, Timothy Snyder, Tom Cotton, Tucker Carlson, White Evangelicals, White Fragility, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Women for Segregation. Image via the Equal Justice Initiative. One thing is for certain. White Americans need lots of tender loving care. The latest campaign to prop up white folks has its origins in the furious response to the 1619 Project, a...
Apr 12, 2021 | #AllLivesMatter, #BlackLivesMatter, Adolf Hitler, Billy James Hargis, Black Manifesto, Bob Jones, Bob Jones University, Camille Lewis, Carl McIntire, Christian Manifesto, Civil War, Demagoguery and Democracy, Donald Trump, Franklin Graham, James Forman, Kenneth Burke, KKK, Patricia Roberts-Miller, Phil Snider, Religious Rhetorics, Southern Poverty Law Center, Uncategorized, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Camille Kaminski Lewis is, as of this fall, 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 American Studies. Her...
Feb 22, 2021 | Adolf Hitler, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Camille Lewis, Capitol Riot, Christian Right, Civil War, Confederacy, Creation Museum, Darwin, Darwin-to-Hitler Trope, Donald Trump, Evolution, Insurrection, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, OathKeepers, Proud Boys, Racism, Righting America, Secession, Slavery, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, White Supremacy, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest in the US Capitol Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. – Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote...
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...
