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  • Review: Milteer, Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South
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Author Sarah Thelen

Sarah Thelen

Sarah Thelen is an historian and instructional designer at University College Cork. She has published articles and chapters on Nixon, the Silent Majority, and domestic debates over the Vietnam War in the Journal of American Studies, 49th Parallel, Beyond the Quagmire (2019) and How the United States Ends Wars (2020). She holds a PhD from American University in Washington, DC, and is writing a monograph on White House efforts to rally support for the US war in Vietnam. Her research also explores the changing nature of patriotism, nationalism, and American identity in the Twentieth Century.

Undecided: Nixon, Trump, and the Risks of Counting on the Silent Majority

Sarah Thelen
Articles, Issue 9 2020
In the midst of what might well be the most significant election in US history, it’s more than a little surreal to be (a) an American abroad, (b) an historian, and (c) a Nixon scholar. I know I’m not the only o... Read More...
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