To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face: Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement

Contents

contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 part one The Precedent of 1774: The Role of Insurgent Violence in the Political Theory of the Founding 27 The Revolution as Living Memory: Fries’ Rebellion and the Alien and Sedition Act Crisis of 1798–1800 57 The Libertarian Memory of the Revolution in the Antebellum Era 95 part two The Roots of Modern Patriotism: Conscription, Resistance, and the Sons of Liberty Conspiracy of 1864 107 Cleansing the Memory of the Revolution: Americanism, the Black Legion, and the First Brown Scare 145 The Making of the Second Brown Scare: Liberal Pluralism and the Evolution of the White Supremacist Right 175 part three The Origins of the Militia Movement: Violence and Memory on the Suburban-Rural Frontier 185 An Exploration of Militia Ideology: The Whig Diagnosis of Post–Cold War America 229 Epilogue: The Defense of Liberty in the Age of Terror 273 Appendix 279 Notes 287 Index 355 ...