Been more than four years since my last sporadic post. Working on a new project for 2025, to better understand the American body politic, where a nation who professes to be one of laws could vote for Donald Trump for a second time. Mostly reflections on readings, mostly for myself, but feel free to jump in.
Here's my initial thoughts, most of it is around domestic politics and specific to populism, specifically white populism, most of my reading will be from popular or more "centrist" academics, it is not intended to be a Marxist reinterpretation of history, it for me to have more understanding about America moving forward. Several major pieces here critical to American history I've studied in great detail; civil war, WWII, etc so I am not revisting them. Going to try to timeline this to be done by late spring, as we start to see the direction of the Republic clearer.
Colonial America
The Mayflower Compact
City on a Hill
The Scots-Irish
Bacon’s Rebellion
Slavery
Indians
Revolution-covered in other domains
The Founding of the Republic
The Declaration of Independence
Constitution
War of 1812 covered in other domains
The New Republic
Federalism
Formation of Political Parties
“popular rebellions” Whiskey Rebellion and Shay’s Rebellion/slave
rebellions
Jacksonian Democracy
Westward Expansion and eradication/resettlement of native
populations
The Road to the Civil War
Nullification Crisis
Abolitionists
Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
The know-nothings
Civil war- cover in other domains
Reconstruction
Beginning of Black gov’t representation
Rise of Jim Crow
Election of 1876-Rutherfraud
Industrialization and the Progressive Era
Immigration
The end of the Indian Wars
Growth of Unions
Robber Barons, growth of extreme wealth
Anarchism
World War I-covered in other domains
Sedition and domestic crackdown
Between the Wars
The great depression
America First
World War II-covered in other domains
Cold War
Economic expansion
Anti Communism
The military industrial complex
1960s
Civil rights
Vietnam and the anti war movement
The Great Society
Non European Immigration
The Southern Strategy
1970s
Nixon and the Silent Majority
Malaise and Economic downturn
1980s and 90s
Rise of Conservatism and the Religious Right
End of the Cold War
First Gulf War
Union breakin
Reaganism
Clinton and the Third Way
2000s
9/11 and rise of the surveillance state
Explosion of the Internet
2008 economic crash
Obama:The Arc of Justice?
Robber Barons revisited
AmericaFirst Redux and the Election of Trump I
BLM and COVID: American Reckoning and Isolation
Jan 6th American Insurrection and ensuing justice
MAGA strikes back the Election of 2024
No comments:
Post a Comment