Hartnett publishes volume 2 of Executing Democracy
Stephen John Hartnett, professor and chair of communication, has now published Executing Democracy, Volume 2: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1835–1843, available from Michigan State University Press. This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 1835 and 1843, when pro-death penalty Calvinist minister George Barrell Cheever faced off against abolitionist magazine editor John O’Sullivan.