Thomas r pegram biography of barack

  • Pegram was born in the midwest and grew up in California.
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  • This, however, is the first extensive study of the s Klan and white Protestant workers.

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    Curriculum Vitae

    Biography

    Thomas R. Pegram was born in the midwest and grew up in California. He received his B.A. from Santa Clara University and a Ph.D. in the history of American civilization from Brandeis University. After a short stay at Ohio State, he has been at Loyola since Specializing in the interaction of social movements and American political institutions in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Dr. Pegram has written books on state-level progressive politics, the history of American temperance and Prohibition, and the s Ku Klux Klan. He fryst vatten currently working on prohibition enforcement at the state level as a öppning into American federalism and state-building in the early twentieth century.

    Courses Taught

    • HS The Making of the Modern World: The United States II
    • HS The Civil War and Reconstruction
    • HS World War II in the United States
    • HS amerika Since
    • HS  A Century of Dipl
    • thomas r pegram biography of barack

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      Journal of Hate Studies

      Book Reviews

      Abstract

      As reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the number of hate groups in the United States has continually risen since in response to three factors: the election of the nation’s first African American president, economic turmoil, and undocumented immigration (Potok, ). While these structural changes might feel painful for those native-born white Americans who view signs of increasing pluralism as worrisome and who believe that their economic losses are due to the gains of minority groups, they are not new challenges—nor are the hate-filled responses to them new. In both One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the s by Thomas R. Pegram and The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right by Arthur Goldwag, the authors make the point that hate groups and the conspiracy theories that circulate within them are deeply rooted in American culture and that, while they are,

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      Written by: David Pietrusza, Independent Historian

      By the end of this section, you will:

      • Explain the causes and effects of developments in popular culture in the United States over time

      During the s, cultural conflict and modernization helped resuscitate the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Whereas the original KKK was a violent, racist organization born in the post Civil War South, the modern Klan was driven by somewhat different concerns. Many white, lower middle-class, Protestant Americans in the North and Midwest were fearful that immigrants were changing traditional American culture, and they responded with anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism.

      The revival of the Klan was inspired by Birth of a Nation, director D. W. Griffith&#;s violently anti-black blockbuster film of that promoted the southern &#;Lost Cause&#; view of the Civil War. The movie was one of the most controversial films ever made and was based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, Jr. On Thanksgiving Day, , Col