Donald Trump

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• 10/11/19
  

  The History Briefing On This Week's Impeachment Updates: How Historians Helped Us Understand the News

  by Paige Morse

  Historians play a key role in contextualizing current events for the public.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/27/19
  

  Spies in the White House Have a History of Running Wild Without Congressional Oversight

  A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/27/19
  

  Intelligence Whistleblowers Often Pay a Severe Price

  by Jennifer M. Pacella

  In many instances, whistleblowers find the abusive power they have revealed turned against them, both ending their careers and harming their personal lives.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/01/2019
  

  Why Donald Trump is much more dangerous than Andrew Johnson

  by Sidney M. Milkis and Daniel J. Tichenor

  While both presidents are demagogues who faced impeachment, today’s political reality means that Trump can do more damage

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/23/19
  

  ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party

  Long before President Donald Trump, there was President John Tyler.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9/4/19
  

  Donald Trump’s Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  Republicans have embraced all that Lincoln loathed.

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• 8/11/2019
  

  We Need a Unifier in 2020

  by Walter G. Moss

  Many of America's enlightened leaders have advised against divisive politics. In 2020, we would do well to remember that.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/6/2019
  

  Professor Breaks Down U.S. Racism, Trump’s ‘Ugliness’ In 3 Powerful Minutes

  Trump is “a manifestation of the ugliness that’s in us,” Princeton’s Eddie Glaude Jr. told MSNBC.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/28/2019
  

  The Real Problem With Trump’s Rallies

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  There are a lot of similarities between the president and George Wallace of Alabama. But there’s also one big difference.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/15/2019
  

  Behind Trump’s ‘go back’ demand: A long history of rejecting ‘different’ Americans

  From that drive to encourage blacks to go back where they came from to waves of nativist attacks on Catholics, Jews, Asians and Hispanics in nearly every generation that followed, “go home” rhetoric is as American as immigration itself.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/14/2019
  

  The surprising history of impeachment and what it means for Trump

  Frank Bowman III, a law professor at the University of Missouri, is out with the definitive history of impeachment in his new book, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors; A History of Impeachment for the Age Of Trump."

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• SOURCE: KUOW
  6/28/2019
  

  Why Tom Ikeda, a historian of Japanese Internment, is Protesting Trump Over Immigrant Detention

  When Tom Ikeda, a Seattle historian, learned that 1,400 migrant children will be detained this summer at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, the symbolism hit home.

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• 6/30/19
  

  How the Specter of Andrew Johnson Haunts Donald Trump

  by Mike Purdy

  When the history books are written, impeachment may define Trump’s presidency in a similar way that “impeachment” and “Andrew Johnson” are solidly and forever linked together.

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• SOURCE: National Review
  6/10/2019
  

  Why Clinton Got Impeached

  by Rich Lowry

  The anti-Clinton case then was stronger than the anti-Trump case is now.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/10/19
  

  What Donald Trump Doesn’t Get About George Washington

  by Peter Canellos

  “If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it. You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/5/19
  

  Historian Victor Davis Hanson's New Book Defends Trump

  Hanson, who is a retired classics professor and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, compares Trump to a tragic hero

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• 2/16/19
  

  What To Know About the History of Impeachment

  by Peter Charles Hoffer

  A primer on the constitutional basis of impeachment, when it's been used before, and what that means for our current political moment. 

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• SOURCE: The Canadian Jewish News
  11-5-18
  

  Simon Schama: Donald Trump is insensitive to Jews

  “Anyone who thinks anti-Semitism in not part of U.S. politics today is in denial.”

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• SOURCE: Salon
  4-9-18
  

  Presidential historian Gil Troy: Donald Trump has committed “a crime against the American people”

  Troy says it’s not too late for Trump to change — but history will judge his enablers harshly.

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• SOURCE: Sandbox (blog)
  2-1-17
  

  Martin Kramer notes how a ban on Jews in the 1930s affected historian Bernard Lewis

  by Martin Kramer

  "Trump’s limited executive order doesn’t resemble the sweeping Jewish ban that changed the career of Bernard Lewis.”