History News Network

1/22/20

The History of Presidential Misconduct Beyond Watergate and Iran-Contra

by HNN Staff

At the AHA, James Banner, Kathryn Olmstead, Kevin Kruse, and Jeremi Suri discussed how they revived a long forgotten report on presidential misconduct.

Source: Washington Post

1/6/20

Iran Air Flight 655: Iran’s president invokes 1988 tragedy many Americans have forgotten

On Monday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani invoked history right back in response to Trump’s threat.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

11/6/19

Berlin Didn’t Want a Reagan Statue—but It’s Getting One Anyway

Seven-foot replica of former president to be inaugurated at U.S. Embassy, overlooking site of Berlin Wall

11/10/19

It’s Been 32 Years since the Conclusion of the INF Treaty Yet Arms Control Is Still Vital

by Stephan Kieninger

It is imperative to avoid a situation where we might have no arms control and no mutual verification at all. Against the backdrop of the Trump Administration’s loathing of arms control, it will be up to the European NATO allies to conceptualize a new arms-control framework for the post-INF world.

Source: The Washington Post

August 4, 2019

Why Donald Trump is just following in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps on race

by Kyle Longley

He might be more unvarnished, but Reagan was just as racist.

Source: The Atlantic

August 5, 2019

The Most Dangerous American Idea

No belief in the history of the United States has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.

Source: NPR

7/31/19

Historian Tim Naftali Discusses Recording Of Reagan's Racist Comments Made To Nixon

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with historian Tim Naftali about his article in The Atlantic describing a tape President Nixon had of then-Gov. Ronald Reagan making racist remarks.

Source: AP

5/27/19

Edmund Morris, known for his biography of Reagan, dies at 78

Morris was a polished prose stylist whose career took off with the success of his first book, “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. But what cemented his legacy was “Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.”

Source: Washington Post

5/19/19

Trump says he’s an antiabortion champion like Reagan. History says: Not quite.

Reagan’s legacy on abortion is far more complicated, and antiabortion advocates have long considered his actions a disappointment.

Source: The Conversation

4/5/19

Nixon and Reagan tried closing the border to pressure Mexico – here’s what happened

by Aileen Teague

If Trump ever follows through on his threat and puts up a closed sign at the southern border, it wouldn’t be the first time. Twice in the last half-century the U.S. has tried to use the border to force Mexico to bend to America’s will.