Blog Just Words Is the American cultural double standard for men and women still present? Last September, I wrote about gender and the…Rebecca KoerselmanOctober 10, 2016
Blog Political Ideology and Christian Theology In my survey course of U.S. history, we discuss the official beginning of the republic of the United States. We…Rebecca KoerselmanSeptember 26, 2016
Blog Burkinis and Bikinis By Rebecca Koerselman Many French mayors have attempted to ban the wearing of Burkinis on French beaches this summer. Historically,…Rebecca KoerselmanSeptember 12, 2016
Blog Regrets, Apologies, and Repentance I’ve noticed some talk about regrets in mainstream American culture. Most recently, Republican candidate for President, Donald Trump, expressed his…Rebecca KoerselmanAugust 29, 2016
Blog Identity and the Way We Dress A fellow graduate student once informed me that one of the reasons he went into academia was because he could…Rebecca KoerselmanAugust 15, 2016
Blog The Power of Narrative Recently, I wrote about sacred spaces in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Historically, the Badlands and Black Hills were…Rebecca KoerselmanAugust 1, 2016
Blog Sacred Spaces Driving through the Badlands National Park in South Dakota, it is easy for me to see why the Lakota viewed…Rebecca KoerselmanJuly 18, 2016
Blog The Second Time Around, Or, the Arrogance of Presentism It is simple, but true. Something that is good can be appreciated again and again. Each time I reread, re-watch,…Rebecca KoerselmanJune 19, 2016
Blog The Battle over Remembering Hiroshima Recently, President Obama became the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, where the US dropped the first atomic bomb…Rebecca KoerselmanJune 6, 2016
Blog Loving (or even liking) Difficult People It is common to the human condition, unless you live in isolation and never have any contact with any one.…Rebecca KoerselmanMay 23, 2016