Archives for October 2024

The Author’s Corner with Ian T. Iverson

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Ian T. Iverson is Associate Editor of the John Dickinson Writings Project. This interview is based on his new book, Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War (Kent State University Press, […]

Sunday night odds and ends

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A few things online that caught my attention this week: The new Chicago Manual of Style is here. A writing instructor on why students don’t read. Photos from the 1893 World’s Fair The story behind Maine’s 1840 abolition law. Is […]

9 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Alex Morris of Rolling Stone, who writes regularly about the Christian Right, has a recent piece on evangelicals trying to convince their fellow believers to vote for Harris. It focuses on Evangelicals for Harris and Doug Pagitt’s Vote Common Good. […]

10 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Kamala Harris is not winning over many evangelical voters with recent comments on abortion. Here are a couple of lines from a Fox News story: Pro-life groups are livid at Vice President Kamala Harris after she took an uncompromising position on abortion […]

The Author’s Corner with Mary Bridges

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Mary Bridges is an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. This interview is based on her new book, Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a […]

Historians are “killing history”

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Katherine Epstein teaches history at Rutgers University-Camden and she has some very good thoughts about her (and my) discipline. Here is a taste of her piece at Liberties, “Historians Killing History“: The indifference to scholarly standards should be evident to […]

If Trump wins, it may be BECAUSE of his depravity

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This week learned from The Atlantic and from The New York Times that Donald Trump is a big Adolph Hitler fan. Tom Nichols at The Atlantic writes: “Many Americans know exactly who Trump is, and they like it.” A taste: […]

James Carville “is certain” Harris will win

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The 79-year-old political strategist who became a household name in the 1990s for his work on the Bill Clinton campaigns is making a prediction. In yesterday’s New York Times, James Carville offered three reasons why Kamala Harris will win the […]

The Author’s Corner with Donald A. Zinman

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Donald A. Zinman is Professor of Political Science at Grand Valley State University. This interview is based on his new book, America’s First Wartime Election: James Madison, DeWitt Clinton, and the War of 1812 (University Press of Kansas, 2024). JF: […]

11 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Jerushah Duford has a piece in Newsweek yesterday making the case for Kamala Harris. Duford is noteworthy because she is an evangelical and the granddaughter of Billy Graham. It appears that she is voting for Harris based on the legacy […]