Capitol Riots

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/25/2021
  

  After the Capitol Was Stormed, Teachers Try Explaining History in Real Time

  The eruption of political violence at the US Capitol has challenged teachers of history and civics at all grade levels and pushed teachers of other subjects to respond to their students' experience of confusion, anger, or sadness. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/15/2021
  

  When White Extremism Seeps Into The Mainstream

  Historian Kathleen Belew discusses the history of the far right and the work of separating the hard core of the movement from its fringes and those who might be persuaded to join it. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/24/2021
  

  Trump is Not a Fascist. But that Didn't Make Him any Less Dangerous to Our Democracy

  by Thomas Weber

  Hitler and Trump, along with fascism and Trumpism, are all destructive to liberal democracy but in fundamentally different ways. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1/14/2021
  

  What the History of the Ku Klux Klan Can Teach Us about the Capitol Riot

  Historian Linda Gordon urges readers to recognize that the Klan has always drawn from "respectable" members of white society, giving it a dangerous ability to claim to represent real American values.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1/15/2021
  

  White Women’s Role In White Supremacy, Explained

  Historian Stephanie Jones-Rogers and author Seyward Darby explain why the presence of women among the Capitol rioters should not be surprising. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/12/2021
  

  New Revelations about Trump’s Cruelty Demand a Bigger Response

  Eric Foner discusses the application of the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump or any other officials implicated in inciting the attack on the Capitol from holding public office in Post commentator Greg Sargent's column. 

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• SOURCE: Conference on Faith & History
  1/13/2020
  

  Resolution of the Conference on Faith and History: Executive Board Response to the Assault on the U.S. Capitol

  The global organization of scholars of the relationship between Christian faith and history has issued a statement condemning the Capitol riots as "a gross violation of the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ."

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• 1/14/2021
  

  Banana Republic or Nut Country? January 6 Put American Exceptionalism in Perspective

  by Frank P. Barajas

  American political elites have responsed to the Capitol riot by comparing it unfavorably to something that would happen in a "banana republic." The historical record of American interference in Latin America and of our own domestic tumults shows that we may not be bananas, but have had our fair share of nuts.

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• SOURCE: Hechinger Report
  1/13/2020
  

  A U.S. History Teacher Scrambles to Explain Unprecedented Attacks and Desecration of Democracy

  by Jim Cullen

  "Our job as educators is to make and model good, conscious choices about what we believe, and to make that necessarily fallible belief system as transparent as we can for students without insisting that they share it."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/12/2021
  

  Impeachment May Not Work. Here’s the Next Best Way to Dump Trump

  by Eric Foner

  The 14th Amendment empowers Congress to bar persons involved in insurrection against the United States from holding office. This can't remove Trump, but it can stop him (and anyone found to have plotted the Capitol rioting) from returning to office. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/7/2020
  

  "Sedition": A Complicated History

  Joanne Freeman, Annette Gordon-Reed, Manisha Sinha and Gregory Downs offer insight into the history of the term "sedition," the relationship between speech and deed, and the specific context of white supremacy that has accompanied discussions of sedition since the overthrow of reconstruction. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/9/2021
  

  Trump’s Removal Is Taking Too Long

  by Tom Nichols

  Donald Trump has shown no contrition over inciting an insurrection against Congress to preserve his own power and can be presumed willing to do anything, including order the use of nuclear weapons. A single day he retains the powers of the presidency is a day too many, writes Tom Nichols. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  1/11/2021
  

  A Starting Point: Teaching the January 6 Insurrection

  by Kevin Boyle and James Grossman

  "The braided relationship between history and civics will make January 6, 2021, a central concern in classrooms and other educational venues across the country. How can we help our students and others to connect the particulars that played out on our screens to those larger processes?"

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• 11/10/2020
  

  Was This a Coup Attempt?

  by HNN Staff

  On January 6, Trump told a rally of supporters the election had been stolen and encouraged them to go to the Capitol. A mob then stormed the building, temporarily disrupting the verification of the Electoral College vote count. Historians discuss how serious the danger to democracy was and the possible consequences.