I was going to write something about this, but my fellow historians have already said just about everything I would say. Maybe I will try to post something later.
Here are links to some of the commentary:
This New York Times article quotes Julian Zelizer and Jon Meacham
The Boston.com piece quotes David Blight and Drew Gilpin Faust
The Washington Post reprints a passage from Joy Hakim’s A History of US
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune quotes Eric Foner
Check our Yoni Appelbaum’s piece at The Atlantic
David Graham’s piece at The Atlantic is also worth reading.
NPR turned to its own Jackson expert, Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep
Yahoo News quotes Kevin Kruse, Eric Rauchway, Nicole Hemmer, and Meacham
Watch:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9kUmL74WDE&w=560&h=315]
As an educator, I’ve long felt the most elementally depressing thing about Trump is that he reads like a bad student essay. Grandiose generalizations untethered from facts, non-sequiturs,, and a wafflish colloquialism that says nothing (“It’s crazy how people way back then were were fighting each other so we could become the country we are today.”)