Category: history

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+ american history, christianity, history, jimmy carter, martin luther king, jr, politics, religion, ronald reagan

Genteel Racism” in “America’s Providential History”

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Mark Beliles and Stephen McDowell’s America’s Providential History, which I started writing about in my pervious post, has been used in Christian schools and in the home-schooling movement since its initial publication in 1989. In American Fascists, Chris Hedges points out that the authors of this textbook define “‘liberty’ as fealty to ‘the Spirit of the Lord.’” Working towards “liberty” means freeing oneself from … Read More Genteel Racism” in “America’s Providential History”

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+ american history, christian fascism, christian nationalism, christianity, education, history, religion

America’s Providential History: Dominionsim, Totalitarianism, and Fascism

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“Throughout this book,” the authors of America’s Providential History write, “we have seen that we must take action to assure that America is re-established on a firm Christian base, and hence, secure our God-given liberties and provide a free and prosperous platform from which we can go and make disciples of all the nations.” America’s Providential History is a Christian textbook used in homeschooling … Read More America’s Providential History: Dominionsim, Totalitarianism, and Fascism

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+ american history, education, history, lillian e smith, martin luther king, jr, pauli murray, Pedagogy, professional development

“The Civil Rights Movement and the Nine-Word Problem” Professional Development Opportunity

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As she prepared to close Laurel Fall Camp for Girls, a camp she ran from 1925–1948, Lillian Smith wrote, “I hope that the idea of Laurel Falls will not die. I want to believe that we have started a chain reaction of dreams that will go on touching child after child in our South.” The Lillian E. Smith Center’s programs, specifically its annual P-12 … Read More “The Civil Rights Movement and the Nine-Word Problem” Professional Development Opportunity

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+ comics, frederick douglass, george washington, history, image comics, killadelphia, thomas jefferson

The Power of Myths

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On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood in Corinthian Hall in Rochester, NY, in front of the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society and told the crowd, “Feeling themselves too harshly and unjustly treated by the home government, your fathers, like men of honesty, and men of spirit, earnestly sought redress.” The British denied the redress, and thus the “fathers” fought the American Revolution. Douglass says … Read More The Power of Myths

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+ a long way from home, claude mckay, france, history, russia

The System Changes but the Prejudice Remains

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Over the past month, I’ve read Claude McKay’s Banjo (1929), his posthumously published Romance in Marseille (2020), and his memoir A Long Way from Home (1937). Numerous thematic threads run throughout these texts; however, as I read A Long Way from Home, one specific theme jumped out at me, specifically McKay’s discussion, at various points in his memoir, about the ways that racism and … Read More The System Changes but the Prejudice Remains

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