Tonight is the first night of content in my “Introduction to History” course. I love using this video to teach historical thinking, especially causality, complexity, and contingency: I discuss how I use this video on page 10-11 in Why Study […]
Archives for September 2021
Rudy Giuliani: What a difference 20 years makes
This is what historians mean by “change over time”: Giuliani on September 11, 2001: Giuliani on September 11, 2021:
How Donald Trump commemorated the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks
Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton were at the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City. George W. Bush was in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Donald Trump started the day at a New York police station ripping Joe Biden’s withdrawal […]
The Author’s Corner with Bryan Rindfleisch
Bryan Rindfleisch is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University. This interview is based on his new book, Brothers of Coweta: Kinship, Empire, and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Muscogee World (University of South Carolina Press, 2021). JF: What led you […]
Evangelical roundup for September 13, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? The Eric Metaxas Show will be broadcast on Mike Lindell’s website: Trump-loving court evangelical Jack Graham is now saying that he is choosing “not to the play the game” of “tribal politics”: Evangelicals and […]
Under the Spell of Stupidity
Trumpism reminds us that stupidity is an enduring threat
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The Baffler addresses efforts to rehab liberalism The culture wars are an “elite device” Can social media be politically productive? A history of the index McWhorter: Systemic racism exists. Now […]
“…never forget that God is the giver of all good things”
Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press, April 22, 1955
“I wonder if these parents know or realize what a great gift they are refusing”
Source: Letter to the Editor, Wilkes Barre (PA) Times Leader, March 8, 1957
Blaspheme of the day
This is from Georgia. Source
George W. Bush compares “violent extremists at home” to the “violent extremists” who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001
Here are two take-away quotes from today’s speech at Shanksville, Pennsylvania Many of us have tried to make spiritual sense of these events. There is no simple explanation for the mix of providence and human will that sets the direction […]
The American Bible Society in the days following September 11, 2001
From The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society: One of the highpoints of the ABS engagement with its home in New York City occurred following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the towers of the World […]
“I’ll See You In My Dreams”
Today at the 9-11 commemoration:
“A materialist would prefer the Salk polio vaccine to God’s creation, the polio virus”
An interesting take from a letter to the editor of the Dayton (OH) Daily News, August 12, 1956:
Biden made the right call on vaccine mandates
Here is Jordan Weissmann of Slate on why this was the right decision: People are dying The economy is still struggling We’ve given people enough time Businesses want their employees vaccinated but have been too scared to mandate it Most […]
What California’s conservative evangelicals think about Larry Elder
Here is Jack Hibbs, pastor of Calvary Chapel–Chino Hills, coming just short of telling his congregation to pray that talk radio host Larry Elder replace California governor Gavin Newsom in the upcoming recall election. As is often the case with […]
“We thank God for Dr. Salk and the new polio vaccine”
From The Times Herald of Port Huron, Michigan: April 22, 1955:
Tweet of the day
Metaxas and pro-Trump worship leader Sean Feucht are gearing-up for this event in Washington D.C.
Joan Chittister on the Beatitudes
Here is the Benedictine Sister at the National Catholic Reporter: In Scripture, we find the Beatitudes, the signs of what it means to be a good human being, an ethical government, a moral country. The renewal of the United States […]
Where is the Robert E. Lee time capsule?
The 1887 time capsule was supposed to be buried under the recently removed Richmond, Virginia Lee monument. Here is Gregory Schneider at The Washington Post: Robert E. Lee lost his lofty perch — but he’s trying to hold on to […]