Blake Scott Ball

Blake Scott Ball is assistant professor and chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Huntingdon College. He is the author of Charlie Brown’s America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Post and The Bulwark.

Posts by Blake Scott Ball

August 13, 2024

A Revolution Captured on Canvas

In John Adams’ estimation, the American Revolution began with an argument in a back room in Boston. “Who of your profession will undertake to paint a Debate or an Argument?” the former president asked of the artist John Trumbull in a letter in 1817. Continue Reading...

February 22, 2022

Charles Schulz, Peanuts, and the power of community

Charles Schulz believed that life was hard and lonesome. That is why he believed that life was best experienced with others. Only through the sharing of burdens and triumphs and fears and joys could a person navigate the immense challenges of life. Continue Reading...