New perspectives on how history is made
What historians are tweeting and retweeting.
Does such a small, angry, cruel man not risk making all of us small, angry and cruel?
His white working class base has been betrayed.
“Reactionary” is more accurate.
The story begins way back in the 1930s (not the 1970s as is usually supposed).
A clue is offered in an article published in The Nation about a century ago.
His real estate background isn’t helping him govern.
This is what history suggests.
History tells us why.
It’s a story from history that shows the danger of self-serving memos cut to fit the fashion of those in power.
That’s what Tucker Carlson claimed when defending Trump from charges he neglected the island because he’s racist. Here’s the backstory.
What historians are saying.
Instead, they should invest in education.
In Watergate the public got to hear directly from the key players.
A privilege of being white is that one's advantages are invisible to oneself, and experienced as having no victims.
He’s a prophet for our time.
Shouldn’t we stop singling out “the troops” for adulation and applaud heroism wherever it occurs?
His illness involves his deep-seated need for desecration.
And what exactly should believers want from a president?
But it’s seriously dated. And there's another tradition he could draw on.
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