Mike Pence

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/3/2021
  

  Is Kamala Harris Really the Least Popular VP in a Half-Century?

  The right has seized on the argument, which is based on shoddy interpretation of polls and ignores the fact that net favorability ratings for current officials are much more affected by partisan polarization than for their predecessors decades ago. 

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• 11/24/2021
  

  Vice Presidential Loyalty and Independence

  by Ron Faucheux

  As the Trump era comes to an end, Vice President Pence is paddling his own boat. Where he goes is now up to him––and him alone.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  1/5/2021
  

  Pence Under Pressure To Follow Vote Certification Procedure But Also Please Trump

  Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer joins Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd to discuss the difficult position that Vice President Mike Pence is in ahead of the formal Electoral College vote certification in Congress.

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• SOURCE: Academe Blog
  10/13/2020
  

  Demon vs. Monster: The Vice-Presidential Debate and an Historian’s Harassment

  by Hank Reichman

  Experience suggests that when institutions issue these kinds of condemnatory statements the harassers are only encouraged to push harder, says Hank Reichman, Chair of the American Association of Univrersity Professors Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  10/8/2020
  

  Two Visions of Higher Education Illuminate the Chasm between Harris and Pence

  by Marybeth Gasman and Adam Laats

  The Vice Presidential candidates' university affiliations--Harris's attendance at Howard and membership in a prominent Black sorority, and Pence's political affinity for Liberty University--show that both HBCUs and Evangelical colleges are important and politically significant parts of the American higher education system.

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• SOURCE: Saved by History
  8/27/2020
  

  Stars and Stripes and Blasphemy

  by L.D. Burnett

  What we heard from Mike Pence was a white evangelical Christian swapping out the Savior for the United States flag.  

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/18/20
  

  Pence's outrageous op-ed holds deeper meaning

  by Jeremi Suri

  Vice President Mike Pence published a powerful, but deceptive article in Friday's Wall Street Journal. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  1/23/19
  

  Historians on The Political Misuses of King's Legacy

  Year after year, notable figures and institutions attempt to recast Martin Luther King Jr. as champion of causes that don't align with his legacy.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  1/21/19
  

  Julian Zelizer blasts Pence for comparing Donald Trump to MLK

  Zelizer said the Trump administration is "antithetical to absolutely everthing" King fought for. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/20/19
  

  Pence's shocking use of Martin Luther King's words

  by Julian Zelizer

  As we've seen, nothing about this administration resembles King's ideals.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  8-29-18
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman says Donald Trump should be given a pardon in exchange for resigning

  "Mike Pence should make Donald Trump an offer he can't refuse: Full pardon if he resigns the presidency and ends our national nightmare."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8-6-18
  

  Back in the 1990s Mike Pence made a moral case for removing a president from office

  He argued that morality and integrity to the office of the presidency were vital.

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• 6/24/18
  

  Remember When Pence Praised Trump to His Face 14 Times in Under 3 Minutes?

  by Joel K. Goldstein

  Four decades after it was reinvented by Carter and Mondale, the Office of the Vice Presidency is sinking in status.

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• 5/13/18
  

  Mike Pence Is No Jerry Ford

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  If Trump goes, we won’t be able to say our long national nightmare is over.

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• 12/17/17
  

  What Awaits Us If Pence Replaces Trump?

  by Michael A. Genovese

  A theocracy.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9-22-17
  

  Vice President Pence Cited a Fake Thomas Jefferson Quote

  Quoting Pence: "Thomas Jefferson said, ‘Government that governs least governs best.’" Thomas Jefferson didn't actually say that.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  8-22-17
  

  Mike Pence on Confederate Statues: I'm "Someone Who Believes in More Monuments"

  He told Fox & Friends "what we have to walk away from is a desire by some to erase parts of our history just in the name of some contemporary political cause."

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• 8-27-17
  

  Mike Pence’s Big Decision

  by Richard Moe

  Where does his ultimate loyalty lie?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-16-17
  

  NYT uncovers the story of Pence’s Irish grandfather

  When Mr. Pence was a toddler, overshadowed by talkative older brothers, his grandfather taught him to recite “Humpty Dumpty” in Gaelic.

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• 2-5-17
  

  Why Indiana Is Feeling Plucky Again!

  by Jeff Tenuth

  With Pence’s ascension, it’s back where the action is – and that’s where it was for a long long time.