“Popular democracy is central to America’s identity, mission, and well-being, but it is also highly vulnerable to racism and irrationality,” [says] Harry Watson, a historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of ‘Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America.’ “Jackson was an unapologetic slave owner and allowed the forcible […]
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Harry Watson notes underbelly of popular democracy
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged christian science monitor, donald trump, harry watson, Laurent Belsie, trail of tears on November 20, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Prof Watson: As failed rebels, Confederates got off light
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged confederate flag, harry watson, unc chapel hill on July 13, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
“As punishment for losing civil wars go, the South got pretty lucky. It got to honor its military leaders with bronze statues. It got to name its streets and schools after Confederate leaders. It even got to keep symbols of the war, like the suddenly at-issue Confederate flag. ” ‘The Southern losers were treated with extraordinary leniency,’ said […]
N.C.: A past mastered only by past masters?
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged h g jones, harry watson, james leloudis, north carolina historians, north carolina history, unc chapel hill history department, william powell on September 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As a nonacademic I’m unsure how to frame this question, but let me bumble ahead: Who these days is studying North Carolina as North Carolina? Of the 23 U.S. History faculty at UNC Chapel Hill only Harry Watson and James Leloudis include North Carolina as a special interest apart from broader topics such as the […]
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