My colleague Jim LaGrand teaches courses in African American history, Native American history, and Public History in the Messiah College History Department. LaGrand recently visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. and has reflected...
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U.S. History Students Tackle Donald Trump
Not literally, of course. If that happened it may have looked something like this. 🙂 Over at History on the Bridge, the blog of the Messiah College History Department, my colleague Jim LaGrand writes about how he and his co-teacher...
How an Old Western Explains Donald Trump
Is Donald Trump a real man? Not by the standards of Homer Bannon in the Academy-Award winning movie “Hud.” My colleague Jim LaGrand explains in an open letter to Trump supporters published today at The Federalist. Here is a taste: During...
Studying *Breaking Bad*
I have never seen an episode of the television series Breaking Bad, but I hear a lot about it from Jim LaGrand, my friend and fellow professor in the Messiah College History Department. When you mention the show to Jim,...
Was Michael Brown “Lynched?”
My colleague Jim LaGrand has some very thoughtful things to say about the way we use historical analogies in our public statements about race in America . Check out Jim’s piece entitled “Selma Is Now? No Not Really.” It is up today...