Dr. Todd Stockdale examine how thinkers like John Locke, Max Weber, and Karl Marx shaped U.S. ideologies of freedom, property, and power, and how Protestant theology helped justify systems of exclusion, race, and settler colonialism.
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Dr. Jared Phillips explores the rise of Southern Evangelicalism in politics, tracing how faith, race, and power intersected through Jimmy Carter’s presidency and shaped belonging in the Ozarks and beyond.
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Historian Olivia Paschal explores how Walmart, Tyson, and J.B. Hunt shaped capitalism in Northwest Arkansas and how their growth continues to influence housing, labor, immigration, and the deeper question of who gets to belong in our region.
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