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The Fight for Purity: Hiram Evans and the Second Ku Klux Klan
Full text linkThe Klu Klux Klan of the 1920s, known as the second Klan, built its three to six million members quicker than any previous group. The Klan continued the traditions of earlier generations, including the notorious robes, masks, and racist attitudes toward African Americans. In addition, anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism grew, which further increased animosity and reshaped what it meant to be a terrorist in America. Through the leadership of Hiram Wesley Evans, a small-practice dentist, who quickly rose in the ranks to later become Imperial Wizard of the Klan in 1922, the Klan was altered in a way never seen before. No longer hiding meetings and agendas, the second Klan carried messages in newspapers and radios open to the public. Without the influence of Evans, the Ku Klux Klan would not have gained the traction crucial to the rise of Klan emotion and ideology in the 1920s. Evans made the Klan something new, a White nativist, nationwide group as well as a segregationist group, creating a lasting impact over a hundred years later
From the Publisher: Navigating Affirmative Action, DEI Policies, and Lutheran Vocational Identity
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Thomas Tredway Library 2023-2024 Annual Report
Full text linkThe 2023-2024 annual report from the Thomas Tredway Library, Augustana College
Access, Accessibility, & Change: a Call for Trustworthy Leadership in Higher Education
Full text linkReforming Community Structures: The Public Library\u27s Impact on the Midwestern Author
Full text linkPublic libraries, though increasingly overlooked, are pivotal spaces for Midwestern communities. Public libraries are fundamental institutions for those in their community and have consistently remained this way, due to the safety they provide as constant outlets for public life. Established in the late 1800s, the emerging public library system developed itself with the foundational goal of reforming society and addressing issues of “public vice” such as “drinking, gambling, and prostitution” (Goldstein 214). The following research discusses public libraries and librarians\u27 continuous support for the moral health of society and how the public library has influenced Midwestern literary careers, specifically that of author Floyd Dell. Furthermore, the cultural representation of the librarian as a maternal stereotype will be highlighted, and shown to be challenged through the characterization of Helen Raymond in Floyd Dell’s Moon-Calf and The Briary Bush
