By Sam Viner ’26 Representing slavery through spoken word is impossible. The use of film and artwork is vital to capturing the horrors of slavery because they examine what words fail to describe. The classic maxim “Art speaks where words fail” rings true in the capability to represent slavery. When Kara Walker, a black contemporaryContinue reading “The Necessity of Stomach-Curdling Violence in Depictions of Slavery”
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Peter, Paul and Mary: The Rise and Fall of the Sixties
By Will Kennedy Folk music has long been a passageway for societies to tell the stories of their culture. With revolutions concerning race, freedom of speech, war, gender, and more, the Sixties are an integral age in the history of modern America. As the most popular folk group in the Sixties, the band Peter, PaulContinue reading “Peter, Paul and Mary: The Rise and Fall of the Sixties”
Debating Gender Roles: The Contested History of “Biblical Womanhood” in Evangelical Discourse
By Kiara Schmidt (’23) Introduction While many scholars have argued that the phrase biblical womanhood has a long history dating to the sixteenth century, I argue it largely emerged as a response to the feminist movement of the 1960s. It was promoted by various influential texts, from Marabel Morgan’s, The Total Woman in 1973 toContinue reading “Debating Gender Roles: The Contested History of “Biblical Womanhood” in Evangelical Discourse”
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