presidential history

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• SOURCE: Raw Story
  

  Heather Cox Richardson: Trump isn’t the first president to compare himself to Jesus — the last one who did ‘planned to lead his white supremacist supporters to victory’

  According to historian Heather Cox Richardson, however, Trump isn't the first president to compare himself to Jesus, whom Christians believe was the son of God.

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• SOURCE: AP
  8/17/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum gets grants to help publish Abraham Lincoln papers

  The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has received more than $400,000 in grants for a project that aims to publish every document written by the nation's 16th president.

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• 8/18/19
  

  The Washington Nationals Should Stop Letting Teddy Win – He Hated Baseball

  by Ryan Swanson

  The history of baseball's great Roosevelt chase and why Teddy Roosevelt never liked baseball. 

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• August 11, 2019
  

  Donald Trump is no James Monroe

  by Mike Purdy

  Donald Trump falls short of James Monroe in four key areas. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/2/2019
  

  How a Historian Uncovered Ronald Reagan’s Racist Remarks to Richard Nixon

  Tim Naftali was the first director of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in Yorba Linda, California.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/4/2019
  

  The White House is upending decades of protocol for policy-making

  The public record shows that Trump’s team has either ignored, manipulated or subverted the requirements for analysis and participation on numerous policy actions that range from addressing climate change to the division of waiters'tips.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/27/19
  

  Who Owns Theodore Roosevelt?

  by Clay Risen

  From Elizabeth Warren to Mike Pence, politicians want to claim America’s 26th president as their inspiration. They might want to reconsider.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/30/19
  

  How did the presidential campaign get to be so long?

  by Rachel Caufield

  While other countries set strict limits on the length of campaigns, American presidential races have become drawn-out, yearslong affairs. It wasn’t always this way.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/23/19
  

  Lincoln Would Not Recognize His Own Party

  by David W. Blight

  He would see the Republicans as the antithesis of everything he fought for.

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• 7/28/19
  

  Is Trump the Worst President in History?

  by Richard Striner

  “Worst,” of course, is a value judgment and any number of our presidents were very bad indeed — or so it could be argued.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/14/2019
  

  The surprising history of impeachment and what it means for Trump

  Frank Bowman III, a law professor at the University of Missouri, is out with the definitive history of impeachment in his new book, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors; A History of Impeachment for the Age Of Trump."

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• 7/14/19
  

  5 Times Presidents Lost Big in the Midterms But Won (or nearly won) Reelection

  by Donne Levy

  While presidents have previously overcome midterm election losses, Trump isn’t following any of the previously established paths to rebound and win reelection. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/9/19
  

  The President Didn't Always Have Power Over Trade Deals

  by William Hauk

  Until the 1930s, it was Congress that set the terms of U.S. trade negotiations with other countries and raised and lowered tariffs as it saw fit, while the president did little but sign his name.

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• 7/9/19
  

  The 2020 Election Presents a Unique Opportunity to Elect a “New Generation of Leadership”

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Promoting change and uniqueness in political leadership could result in higher voter turnout and potentially would enhance efforts to address the challenges of the 21st century.

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• SOURCE: Chris Riback's Conversations
  6/28/2019
  

  Accidental Presidents: A Conversation with Historian Jared Cohen

  On his podcast, Chris Riback's Conversations, Riback and Cohen discuss Cohen's new book, “Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America,” which looks at the “eight men [who] succeeded to the presidency when the incumbent died in office. In one way or another they vastly changed our history.”

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/30/19
  

  How Lincoln's disdain for demagogues pricks Trump's Fourth of July pomposity

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  If nothing else, the president’s speech on the Mall on Thursday will show how far we have fallen since Lincoln.

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• 7/2/19
  

  The 2020 Election and Presidential Age

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  We could have the oldest President in American history at inauguration with Sanders, Biden or Warren, or the youngest President in American history with Buttigieg, Gabbard, Swalwell or Moulton.

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• SOURCE: Bustle
  6/30/2019
  

  7 Presidential Campaign Logos That Went Down In History, For Better Or Worse

  Some unforgettable presidential campaign logos from over the years show politics and design are more intertwined than you'd think.

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• 6/30/19
  

  How the Specter of Andrew Johnson Haunts Donald Trump

  by Mike Purdy

  When the history books are written, impeachment may define Trump’s presidency in a similar way that “impeachment” and “Andrew Johnson” are solidly and forever linked together.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/23/2019
  

  Enough With Hamilton, Say Fans of Other Founding Fathers

  Success of Broadway show steals limelight from Jefferson, Franklin and others; ‘not a lot of demand for James Madison’