By Vincent Carretta (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) King George III inherited two legacies from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660: his crown and a tradition of regal satire. As the last British monarch who fully ruled as well as reigned and as the last king of America, George III was the target of constant satiric … Continued
By Gladys Engel Lang (NHC Fellow, 1983–84), and Kurt Lang (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) Politics and Television Re-Viewed, a revised and updated version of the highly acclaimed Politics and Television, examines the ways in which television, through its live coverage of major political events, has shaped public images of politics and political personalities and, in so … Continued
By David Simpson (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) Language, its nature, and its uses have always been controversial topics. This engaging study brings into focus those highly charged years in America Between 1776 and 1850 when questions of language mirrored the social and political arguments of the time and generated even more arguments on both sides of … Continued
Between the 1820s and 1850, as more white males won the right to vote and political parties became more organized, the character of American democracy changed. It became more partisan and more raucous, a turn that bred ambivalence and even discontent with politics and the dominant parties.
In its June 23 (2016) Referendum, 51.9% of UK voters elected to leave the European Union. Daniel Kelemen breaks down the complicated path of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU – or Brexit. More than a removed political decision in another country, Keleman describes the short- and long-term ramifications of this decision on the … Continued
Ours is the age of the strongman, the leader who destroys or damages democracy and uses masculinity as a tool of political legitimacy. This webinar discusses the authoritarian playbook—corruption, violence, machismo, and propaganda—and how people have resisted it for one hundred years.
This talk will explore the geopolitical and political messages expressed in the most recent entry in the "Call of Duty" video game series, which is titled "Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War," as a means to investigate the concept of "imperialist realism."
This webinar, based on Zuccino's 2021 Pulitzer Prize–winning book, will discuss the causes and the lasting legacy of the 1898 white supremacist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, the only armed overthrow of an elected government in United States history. White supremacists spent months planning the coup, in which they burned the city's Black newspaper and … Continued
Emotions matter in politics—enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. The webinar will explore the emotional life of politics, with particular emphasis on how political anxieties affect public life. When the world is scary, when politics is passionate, when the citizenry is … Continued
America would not exist without rhetoric. John Quincy Adams observed that rhetoric is essential to democracy. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution stand on firm rhetorical foundations, and rhetoric has shaped debate on issues from abolition in the nineteenth century to abortion in the twenty-first. Legislation requires deliberative rhetoric; the courts require judicial rhetoric; … Continued