Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Michael E. Neagle (Nichols College)

Michael E. Neagle is Professor of History at Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts. He is the author of Chasing Bandits: America s Long War on Terror (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming) and America s Forgotten Colony: Cuba s Isle of Pines (Cambridge University Press, 2016), as well as articles in Terrorism and Political Violence and The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Neagle earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Connecticut, and his bachelor s degree from the College of the Holy Cross.

In calling for a global war on terror following the attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush said the conflict will be a different type of war than we re used to this is a different type of enemy than we re used to. But during the age of overseas American empire, the United States has engaged in such wars and pursued such enemies many times. In the past, U.S. politicians and the press often couched the danger in the language of the bandit or savage. In the present, the term most often used is terrorist. These terms all suggest criminality, incivility, and illegitimacy of cause and means. Moreover, these pejorative descriptions have served to rally political support at home and to justify incursions abroad in places of strategic interest. Drawing from examples in the forthcoming book, Chasing Bandits: America s Long War on Terror, Neagle argues that the contemporary war on terror is not a unique phenomenon in U.S. history.

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