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Freedom to Harm: Private Violence and the American State, 1860-1895 with Hugh Wood
The Weberian definition of the state is an institution with a monopoly over legitimate violence within a defined territory. Eager to explain the genesis of European nation states, Weber’s model is a poor fit for the history and experience of American statehood. What might explain the marked failure of the United States government to monopolize violence within its territory, and the historical and contemporary prevalence of violence in American civil society?
Dear all,
I want to draw your attention on an article published by the Times and mentioned in this week's Legacies Blog: "What the Culture War Gets Wrong About American History Class." I will copy here the beginning of the article: "For the past half-decade, amid overheated rhetoric contesting the very essence of national identity, Americans have been subjected to competing caricatures of the country’s history classrooms. Progressives have voiced fears that the typical U.S. history curriculum is a whitewashed fable that suppresses uncomfortable truths about slavery and race. Conservatives have
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In this new SHA virtual program, we will bring members together to consider classic texts in Southern History. A panel of experts will discuss the content, context, and meaning of the text, both in the time of its publication and in our own time, and then open to the audience to further explore this canonical work together.
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