New perspectives on how history is made
Both men won the presidency in part through racist rhetoric and actions.
They both happened this month. And they were an imperialist’s dream.
Probably not. But what history shows is that presidential slogans are snapshots capturing the desires, aspirations, and sometimes fears of the American people.
We can fly to the moon, but still can’t get along.
Eager to escape the White House bubble many have exposed themselves to danger.
It’s a stale myth and it stinks.
The party’s first president – Abraham Lincoln – endorsed the first and only major law in American history to encourage immigration.
The Supreme Court has decided that your decisions can be thrown out.
They have room on the walls for a letter signed by Nixon but not for a GOP cabinet secretary who helped bring Nixon down.
Personalizing policies is a proven way to discredit them.
If he does, he’ll have plenty of precedents to cite.
And between Fascism and Trumpism.
The stable original intent we can most likely take from them is that we all must be keenly alive to our duty to be thoughtful, compassionate citizens.
The British live by and large in the radical new world Attlee created at the end of the war.
Voters wanted England to be sovereign again.
The advice folksinger and political activist Woody Guthrie would be giving to us were he alive.
Does he know it?
Most Americans come from Northern Ireland including Ulysses Grant and Stonewall Jackson.
What we think often depends on our self interest, not on a broader view of the best process.
Ten times in American history death could well have altered the course of events.
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