Darren R. Reid is a lecturer in history at Coventry University. His core research is concerned with the role played by violence in the shaping of early American society and its role in the creation of specific forms of Native American ‘Otherness’ which have helped to shape American cultural interactions and developments within mainstream American social spaces. Reid is specifically interested in the ways in which lived experiences are transformed from subjective and nuanced memories through codification and canonisation. Much of Reid’s research is concerned with exploring the intersection of race and the imagination, exploring the creation of powerful media narratives which fictionalise historic events in a way which justifies later policies and attitudes.
Setting aside the question of whether or not the American Revolution was as radical as Gordon Wood famously argued that it was, at least two fundamental changes occurred west of the Appalachian Mountains in the last quarter of the eighteenth century that had little to do with the political revolution in the east.[1] Stephen Aron, […]
