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Jonathan Beecher Field

Jonathan Beecher Field was born in Boston and educated in the Midwest. He is an associate professor of English Literature at Clemson University. Portions of this essay are adapted from a longer article appearing in American Literature and the New Puritan Studies, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

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Politics

This Is Not a Witch Hunt

Trump would do well to remember that it is only a witch hunt if the accusations are untrue.

Jonathan Beecher Field

Race

Statue Mania

Focusing only on Confederate monuments misses that racism is memorialized everywhere.

Jonathan Beecher Field

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