The Origins of Policing -- from the Middle Ages to the First World War
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Cycles of Protest and Prostitution
A lot of the arrests and activity of police in the nineteenth century were focused on these sorts of things that, in large part, to day, we would consider of really minor vice. The elites wanted to create a sort of tame and respectable working class that would conform to the sort of inherited norms of protestant america. And this led to continuing cycle, cycles of lax enforcement of these laws and codes, followed by crack downs, then protest, and then the police would back off until another crack down, and over and over.
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