The Politics of Secrecy in America, 1790-Present

3 units

From fears of secret machinations by British colonial ministers that underwrote the American Revolution to conspiratorial theories about the intent of Lincoln and his Black Republicans that precipitated southern secession in 1860 and 1861 to contemporaneous conspiracy theory about the 2000 and 2004 elections, the 9/11 attacks and the present War on Terror, secrets--real and imagined--have dramatically influenced political attitudes, beliefs and practices in American history.