If our mailbox in the wake of the death of George Floyd is any indication, many listeners of this podcast and readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog are making honest efforts to understand the meaning of phrases like “systemic racism” and “white privilege.” Can racism in America be solved by a simple change of individual character? Or does it require much deeper shifts in the ways we order our collective lives? In this episode, we will think through these issues with Dr. Scott Hancock, a professor of African-American history and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Episode 104: The Roots of American Public Education
Episode 103: Spiritual Socialists
Episode 102: The Ghosts of Colonial Williamsburg
Episode 101: "Exhibiting Evangelicalism"
Episode 100: Christian Historians as Activists?
Episode 99: Historicizing the Search for Roots
Episode 98: Conversions: Spiritual and Political
Episode 97: In Search of George Washington's Hair
Episode 96: Thinking Historically about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Episode 95: The Lost Promise of American Universities
Episode 94: Gettysburg, 1963
Episode 93: A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America
Episode 92: Original Sin and the History of American Democracy
Episode 91: Providential History and the Pacific Northwest
Episode 90: "The Gospel According to Charles Lindbergh"
Episode 89: The Heretical John C. Calhoun
Episode 88: History Education on the Great Plains
Episode 87: Religion and the American Revolution
Episode 86: A Conversation with Eric Miller, Editor of Current
Episode 85: Reckoning with Confederate Monuments
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