presidential history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/15/19
  

  A newspaper accused the president’s family of profiting from a foreign deal. The president sued.

  No, not Trump. Teddy Roosevelt.

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/10/19
  

  Could Trump Lose the Republican Nomination? Here's the History of Primary Challenges to Incumbent Presidents

  by Olivia Waxman

  While an incumbent President has never lost a primary nomination in modern U.S. history, these five challengers put up a serious fight.

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• SOURCE: AP
  10/12/19
  

  Historians Jon Meacham, Mark Summers, Keri Leigh Merritt, Michael Ross, Brenda Wineapple, and Benjamin Railton Featured in Article on Andrew Johnson and Impeachment

  As the impeachment inquiry of Trump unfolds, Johnson, never among America’s most famous presidents, though widely considered one of the worst, is attracting renewed attention.

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• 10/13/19
  

  Trump and A History of Presidential Anti-Semitism

  by Donne Levy

  As with so many Trump blunders, he is apparently ignorant of the history and nature of anti-Semitism in America.

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/7/2019
  

  Inside America's Political History of Problematic Relatives

  Since America’s early days, leading politicians have had to contend with awkward problems posed by their family members. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/1/19
  

  Jimmy Carter once thought he was nearing death. The longest-living former U.S. president just turned 95.

  Carter has reached yet another milestone despite thinking he was on the verge of death just a few years earlier, after doctors discovered that cancer had spread to his brain.

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• 9/29/19
  

  The Value of the USA's Founding Values in a Time of Political Turmoil

  by Andrew Fletcher

  An interview with Roger Fortin, the author of How the Ideals of America’s Founders Lead Us to Purposeful Living. 

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• SOURCE: We're History
  9/12/19
  

  Gerald Ford, Impeachment, and The Difference Between Politics and Law Enforcement

  by Michael J. Socolow

  Though the pardon still haunts his memory, it’s time we viewed Ford’s act through the prism of distance and experience.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/11/19
  

  A woman who ran for president in 1872 was compared to Satan and locked up. It wasn’t for her emails.

  Woodhull sought to unite a coalition of African Americans, abolitionists, laborers, suffragists and 19th-century Spiritualists — groups that found themselves without a voice in government and relegated to the fringes of power.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/19
  

  As plantations talk more honestly about slavery, some visitors are pushing back

  “We’re at a very polarized, partisan political moment in our country, and not surprisingly, when we are in those moments, history becomes equally polarized."

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• 9/1/19
  

  The Carter Presidency Reconsidered

  by Richard Moe

  “We told the truth, we obeyed the law, we kept the peace and we championed human rights.” 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  8/27/19
  

  Shedding light on secret laws governing presidential power

  by MARY DUDZIAK

  This system of secrecy curtails the ability of historians like me to research some of the most consequential opinions justifying executive actions.

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• 8/27/19
  

  A Voting History of American Jews From 1916 to Today

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Historically, Democratic presidential candidates have received a majority of the Jewish vote.

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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.