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William Vance Trollinger Jr.

William Vance Trollinger Jr. is associate professor of history and religious studies at the University of Dayton.

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Portrait of a nation

Sociologist Claude Fischer is unhappy with historians' failure to provide a grand narrative of American history.
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Murderous nation

In 1863 a cooper in Chillicothe, Ohio, named Schyler Courier angrily responded to a group of boys throwing snowballs at him by firing his shotgun, killing one of the boys....
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Prescient pacifists

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No more death row

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The Death Penalty, by Stuart Banner

Our hottest, most divisive cultural arguments are often conducted without any awareness of historical context, as the debates over abortion and capital punishment attest....
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Nonviolent voices: Peace churches make a witness

It is not a propitious time to be a pacifist in the United States. Polls indicate that over 90 percent of Americans continue to support the military campaign in Afghanistan....
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Managing a merger: Forming the Mennonite Church USA

It was not the sort of place where one would expect to find the folks who produced the More-with-Less cookbook, but the massive and hermetically sealed Opryland complex i...
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In Lockdown America: The corruption of capital punishment

I finish this review in the shadow of Timothy McVeigh’s execution....
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My friend’s execution

Just after midnight on Wednesday September 24, 1997, I watched as the state of Missouri put Samuel McDonald to death by lethal injection....

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