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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

📣Out now on #firstview! Tom Arnold-Forster @raioxford.bsky.social on 'Mary McCarthy and the Watergate Crisis' #Politics #Democracy #USA #American #Debates 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Watergate is conventionally understood through insider narratives about its complex daily churn as an unfolding political scandal. But the crisis also drove broader theoretical debates about democracy and the state in 1970s America. This article offers the first sustained account of Mary McCarthy’s Watergate writings. She theorized Watergate as a stark legitimacy crisis that revolved around the relationship between democracy and totalitarianism. Through dialogues with Hannah Arendt and others, McCarthy argued that Watergate turned politically on the public’s ability to unmask and contest the power of totalitarian state actors. By rejecting tragedy as a conceptual framework for Watergate, and by recentring the state in debates about US totalitarianism, McCarthy’s work shows how and why interactions between public opinion and state power could advance both democratic and anti-democratic politics.

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Gwion Wyn Jones @gwionwynjones.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My new article on Reconstruction and the language of conservatism - out now!

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Gwion Wyn Jones @gwionwynjones.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My new article is out now in Civil War History! It retraces how Americans used the word 'conservative' and its cognates to litigate Reconstruction debates, and encourages historians to rethink the Conservative-Radical binary that structures our understanding of the era. muse.jhu.edu/article/988991

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Gwion Wyn Jones @gwionwynjones.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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Gwion Wyn Jones @gwionwynjones.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, 'Christ, Church, and Country' (@uvapress.bsky.social), on the home mission movement after the American Civil War and the role it played in the 'Greater Religious Reconstruction' of the US @raioxford.bsky.social www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10251/

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American Society of Church History @aschurchhistory.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Read about the role of the postbellum Protestant church-building in in the broader process of national consolidation in "Church-Building and the Consolidation of the United States, 1865–1900," by Gwion Wyn Jones in the June 2025 issue of Church History. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Church-Building and the Consolidation of the United States, 1865–1900," by Gwion Wyn Jones

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

In every era, conservatives face a choice: what to preserve, what to change, and who decides. The history of conservatism is a history of crisis | Gwion Wyn Jones engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-h...

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In every era, conservatives face a choice: what to preserve, what to change, and who decides.

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