Here is Jennifer Schuessler at The New York Times: Around 1772, Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved teenager in Boston, sat down to write a poem called “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” which began with praise for the “mercy” that […]
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Kevin McCarthy’s Historical Amnesia
Much of the new Speaker’s first speech was delivered in a vacuum
I Baptize You in the Name of Donald Trump
“There are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception.”
Evangelical pastors running for office
The Washington Post video team is running a mini-documentary on pastors running for political office. The piece features Cameron McGill, a Bladen County Commissioner and pastor of White Lake Church. McGill was “recruited and trained” by the American Renewal Project. […]
Stanford’s Jack Rakove is the latest historian to critique the 1619 Project
Tom Mackaman of the World Socialist Web Site is back with another interview. Here is a taste of his conversation with Stanford’s Jack Rakove: TM: You mentioned it before, and we will need to turn to the 1619 Project, whose […]
Can one date define a nation?
1619? 1776? 1865? 1940? 1964? Which date defines the nation? Here is McGill University historian Gil Troy at the Jewish News Syndicate: In August 2019, The New York Times launched the 1619 Project—pivoting American history around racism’s evils, starting with the first slave ship’s […]
Evangelical roundup for September 23, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? The majority of white evangelical Protestants believe Donald Trump is a “true patriot.” When the KKK funded Billy Sunday: The president of the National Association of Evangelicals meets with Biden. Men’s groups are reading […]
Museums will play a key role as the United States heads toward its semiquincentennial in 2026
Here is John Garrison Marks at the blog of the American Alliance of Museums: While the US Semiquincentennial Commission outlined a broad vision for the commemoration in its 2019 Inspiring the American Spirit report—describing a grassroots commemoration that educates, engages, and unites […]
How Southern Baptists and others are responding to the election of Ed Litton as president of the convention
We also included some initial reaction to Litton’s election in this post. Litton is, relatively speaking, a “moderate.” That means he wants to work for racial reconciliation, does not want to condemn critical race theory, and embraces the Baptist Faith […]
The Tampa Bay Times rejects “just the facts” history
History teaching begins with facts. But history teaching that stops with “just the facts” is not history teaching. Historians think about “what happened” in context. They think about facts in relations to other facts, leading them to tell complex stories […]