Author: Matthew Carroll

Matthew Carroll is an early-career historian (B.A., the University of Missouri) and experimental psychologist (M.S., Missouri State University). He has recently published original research on self-regulation and an exploration of the domestic psychological consequences of imperialism. He serves as an associate editor for Frontiers in Psychology and is currently pursuing placement in a doctoral program.

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The Tree of Liberty: Standing Armies and the Struggle to Define American Governance

One the United States’ Founders, writing under the pseudonym Brutus, argued that the new country, spanning too great a distance and too many distinctly interested peoples, was not viable.[1] His predictions were bleak: the government would lack the support of the people, who would feel both neglected and subsumed by its distant authority. To generate […]

by Matthew Carroll