A very one have calling of the all right. I going ahead and kicking things off. Thank you for coming to the violent in u. S. Politics panel. I think you will see this as a timely panel and a good time to put these topics into the context of a broader American History. I will start off by introducing our panel and then everyone will give an Opening Statement and we will start the conversation. Sitting right next to me is an assistant professor of history at Duke University who holds a phd in two from Duke University. Author of captives of liberty, which will be released this fall. In thepublished articles journal of the early republic, the journal of early American History. And he is working on a project provisionally titled, patrick henrys war. Kelly Carter Jackson is a 19th century historian at wellesley college. , out from University Pennsylvania press, provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the use of violence on black activists. Of coeditor and was featured i
Watch American History tv, tonight and over the weekend, on cspan3. All right. Since we have a very ontime sort of calming of the room, i am going to go ahead and kick us off. Thank you, so much, for coming to the violence in american politics panel. As i think we will see it as an incredibly timely panel. And a really good time to be putting these topics into the context of a broader American History. So im going to start off by introducing our panel. And then everyones going to give their opening statement. And then, we will start the conversation. So who is sitting right next to me is t. Cole jones. Assistant professor at purdue university. He is author of captives of liberty prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Reserve lugz, which will be released this fall by the university of pennsylvania press. In addition to his book, hes published articles in the journal of the early republic, the journal of military history and the new england quarterly. He is curren
Employers from their employees when they went to the polls. They were not passed in all states. Secret ball let polls lagged. So we have this kind of interesting phenomenon with the klan of the 20s. Even as this membership grows, klan violence declines. In fact, racial violence overall declines during the 1920s after a kind of sharp spike in lynchings post world war i. Certainly compared to whats effectively the paramilitary klan of reconstruction or the terrorism of the klan in the civil rights era, historians have written about the klan of the 1920s as less physically environment, though of course still driven by the same fundamentally violent ideology. Thats not the whole picture though. To correct that misunderstanding, what we need to do is look at the klans political involvement. I think its particularly interesting to look at this from the federal level. Now if we focus on electoral success, its pretty easy to dismiss the influence of the ku klux klan on the politics of the 1920
American history from john hopkins and prisoners of war and politics of vengeance in the American Revolution which will be released this fall by the university of Pennsylvania Press. Articles in the journal and the new england quarterly and working on a project that is titled patrick henrys war the struggle for empire in the revolutionary west. Kellie Carter Jackson is from wellesley college. Out from university of Pennsylvania Press provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical uses of violence among black activists. She is coeditor of race, politics and memory and featured in the History Channel documentary roots a history revealed which was nominated for an image award in 2016. Gideon cohnpostar the causes and consequences of economic voter intimidation in the late 17th century and the institute of American History and the andrew w. Melon foundation and the social Science Research council. And finally Felix Harcourt is from Austin College and his researc
Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac the polling place was in the center of the building, but to get to that polling place, to get into the center of the building, you had to pass by two tables, one was staffed by a republican, one by democratic operatives, and they were the ones who gave you your ballot, the ballots were printed by parties, there was no official ballot, and the operatives who worked for the Republican Party at that polling place happened to also work for a man named Thomas Kingsford who owned the kingsford mill, you might use kingsford starch in your cooking or to keep your clothes stamped, still a Large Company today, and it was widely known that as the kingsford employees, as the many who worked for kingsford walked into the building the republican operatives would hand them their tickets and remind them that they were expected to vote the way that kingsford wanted them to. They had to go straight on in. As one of the democratic observers testified, the workers