by Dennis Joiner | Jun 2, 2026 | History, Society, U.S. Politics
Photo by Allexxandar In the 1950s, a strange sickness swept across America, which was neither an aer virus nor a germ. It was a deep and growing panic called the Red Scare that changed how ordinary people saw the world, making them afraid of their own neighbors and...
by Dennis Joiner | Jun 1, 2026 | American Society, History, and Government, History
The Architecture of a Fractured Decade The year 1968 did not arrive in a vacuum, as structural fractures hardened into place years prior. The standard narrative treats the era as a sudden, tragic derailment of social peace, but this misses a deeper reality. The early...
by Dennis Joiner | Apr 3, 2026 | History, Social Change, The Turn, U.S. Politics
Photo by senivpetro Life in America looks very different now than it did for our grandparents and great-grandparents, and looking through the lens of American history, we can see the major cultural shiftsthat have shaped our daily lives: from the clothes we...
by Dennis Joiner | Mar 3, 2026 | Discrimination, History, Social Change, Society, The Turn
Photo by pressfoto Understanding wokeism in American politics and media is critical for anyone trying to make sense of today’s headlines. The new culture war that is tearing through communities, workplaces, and families is deeply founded on in-group dynamics,...
by Dennis Joiner | Feb 10, 2026 | History, The Turn, U.S. Politics
Photo by cookie_studio The credibility of its results always measures the health of a democracy — the results of its government, its initiatives, and its ability to declare elections fair and just and prove them so. Throughout the many historical events that...
by Dennis Joiner | Jan 22, 2026 | History, Poverty, Social Change
Photo by Pin Adventure Map on Unsplash | A close-up of a map marking locations in the US, understanding today’s American worldview. Understanding today’s American worldview starts with a long shadow, one cast by decades of tension, rivalry, and fear that reshaped how...
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