Book

American Laughter, American Fury

Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750–1850

2025

Johns Hopkins University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

A painting of George Washington on horseback reviewing the Western Army at Fort Cumberland.

Merry, Manly Militias

Levity and play — eerily combined with anxiety, terror, and deadly violence — shaped the identity and image of Early Republic militias.

by Eran A. Zelnik via HNN on January 28, 2025

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