January 11, 2021
[Editor’s note: Michael Silvestri, Professor of History at Clemson, is an expert on policing in Ireland (and through Ireland, across the British colonies). Through independence, partition, and the Good Friday Agreement, Ireland has had to successively form and reform police forces. Thinking that maybe the Irish example could inform the current discussions about the police […]
January 9, 2021
Anonymous White House insider reports claim that Donald Trump is behaving like “Mad King George.” In private, maybe he is; in public, though, on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, he acted like Charles the First. Less familiar to Americans today, Charles’s actions in 1640s England inform the eighteenth-century Constitution of the United States. Infuriated by Puritans […]
January 7, 2021
[Author’s note: Lee Morrissey, Founding Director of the Humanities Hub, and English Professor at Clemson, on media, civil war, and democracy in seventeenth-century England, and early 2021. This is Clemson Humanities Now.] In 1995, when I was still a graduate student, I was lucky enough to get a job as an assistant professor of English, […]
