Donald Trump

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  8/10/2020
  

  Trump Claims ‘1917’ Pandemic Ended World War II—Which Began in 1939

  President Donald Trump suggested Monday evening that the “1917” influenza pandemic ended World War II, wrongly citing both the year that the pandemic occurred and the year that World War II ended.

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• 8/9/2020
  

  Five Strictly Professional Reasons Why Historians Dislike Donald Trump

  by Walter G. Moss

  Historians may dislike Trump for many reasons that apply equally to our fellow Americans. But we also dislike him because he violates so many of the values important to us as historians.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/5/2020
  

  Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism?

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  The slaveholders’ attempts to perpetuate their system backfired; in the years before the Civil War, the inhumanity and cruelty of enslavement became too blatant for northerners to ignore or deny.

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• SOURCE: Nature
  8/4/2020
  

  Two Decades of Pandemic War Games Failed to Account for Trump

  The scenarios foresaw leaky travel bans, a scramble for vaccines and disputes between state and federal leaders, but none could anticipate the current levels of dysfunction in the United States.

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• SOURCE: CNBC
  8/5/2020
  

  Biden Will Beat Trump, Says Historian Who Predicted Every Presidential Race Since 1984

  Polls are “snapshots in time,” Allan Lichtman said. “None of this in the end has any impact whatsoever on the outcome of a presidential election.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  

  Trump’s Racist Housing Tweet is Par for His Family

  Columnist Jennifer Rubin argues that Trump's appeal to white suburban homeowners echoes the discriminatory rental practices that built the Trump family real estate business. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/31/2020
  

  The Next Lost Cause?

  by Caroline E. Janney

  The South’s mythology glamorized a noble defeat. Trump backers may do the same.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  7/31/2020
  

  Trump’s Mail Ballot Claims are Part of a Long History of Voter Suppression

  by Griffin Black

  Over the years since 1965, voter suppression tactics have returned in forms like voter ID qualifications and voter roll purges that force citizens through administrative hoops to reach the ballot box. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  Fascism: A Concern

  Is the application of "fascism" to describe today's politics accurate or useful? Historians including Samuel Moyn, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, David A. Bell, and Heather Ann Thompson add perspective. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/4/2020
  

  The Never Trumpers Have Already Won

  by Samuel Moyn

  Never Trump's historic role turns out to be not among Republicans so far, but within a Democratic Party whose members have chosen to convert enemies into friends, setting up a guardrail against the capture of their party by the left.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/3/2020
  

  How White Supremacy Infected Christianity and the Republican Party

  Columnist Jennifer Rubin discusses the findings of Robert P. Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute, presented in his new book, that elements of evangelical theology are strongly supportive of hierarchy and inequality. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/30/2020
  

  Trump Can’t Postpone the Election—But He’s Trying to Destroy Its Legitimacy

  There aren’t many historical precedents for such a move, but when they exist, they have been undertaken by politicians who are extremely well liked. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  Federalist Society Co-Founder Writes Trump Efforts to Postpone Election Grounds for Removal

  by Steven G. Calabresi

  One of the founders of the Federalist Society argues that Trump's call to postpone the 2020 election is grounds for removal from office if not rescinded. 

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• SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio
  7/28/2020
  

  The Impact of White Evangelicals on U.S. Politics (Audio)

  Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez argues in "Jesus and John Wayne" that contemporary Evangelical political views are a product of the group's embrace of patriarchal authority and power, a situation that will not end when Trump leaves office. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  7/29/2020
  

  Chicago Becomes a Stage for Fulfilling a Conservative Battle

  Conservatives have wanted the federal government to take control of crime in Chicago for decades — long before Trump got into politics.

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• SOURCE: Going Medieval
  7/30/2020
  

  On Sex with Demons

  by Eleanor Janega

  "The idea of having sex with demons or the devil... has a long and proud history. A concern about sleep sex demons traces at least as far back as Mesopotamian myth where we see the hero Gilgamesh’s father recorded on the Sumerian King List as Lilu, a demon who targets sleeping women, in 2400 BC."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/26/2020
  

  Ronald Reagan Foundation Asks RNC to Stop Using Reagan's Likeness for a Trump Fundraiser

  The RNC had printed a commemorative coin without receiving permission to use the 40th President’s likeness, said the Reagan Foundation's chief marketing officer.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Will the Crisis Year of 2020 Turn Out Like 1968?

  by James Thornton Harris

  Trump’s attempt to use Nixon’s outdated playbook will fail. Our nation is younger, more diverse and better educated now. We know better. 

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Weighing the Evidence when a President is Accused of Antisemitism

  by Rafael Medoff

  In weighing the evidence that has so far been produced concerning Trump, one must consider the standards that historians have applied with regard to the other three presidents who have been accused of antisemitism—Richard Nixon, Harry Truman, and Franklin Roosevelt.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Who Opened the Door to Trumpism? David Frum's "Trumpocalypse" Reviewed

  by David O'Connor

  Through his long analysis of Trump’s follies, Frum never develops his contention that twenty-first-century conservatism helped open the door for Trump. Without a full accounting, his political mea culpa is hollow and fails to offer guidance on how to avoid mistakes in the future.