Ku Klux Klan
Ralph Young is a history professor at Temple University. He has done extensive research in the history of protest movements, terrorist organizations, and 17th-century Puritanism. He is the author of Dissent: The History of an American Idea, a narrative history…
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea Ralph Young New York University Press (2015) “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” Edmund Burke On occasion, I read two or more books…
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Trump and the Two Underwoods: A Tale of Contested Conventions
In A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign, explains why the first presidential race between incumbent John Adams and his vice president, Thomas Jefferson, in 1800 set a standard for civility so low that…
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