How do we honor an innovator? Do we associate their name with their creation forever, like Eli Whitney and the cotton gin? Do we raise a statue in their honor? Do we put their name on a piece of currency? Around here, we make a digital collection out of their work, like we did with Harding Black. From the 1930s…
Month: September 2015
(Digital Collections) Farmers’ Wives, Insane Asylums and Dr. G.W. Truett’s Sermons of the 1940s
George W. Truett was an unrivaled master of the preacher’s art for telling an engaging story, for drawing parallels between the Bible’s cast of characters and his contemporary audience, and for recalling passages of Scripture at the drop of a mic. But even he wasn’t above falling prey to passing along misinformation, and in at least two recorded instances in…