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Grover Cleveland

What’s the worst a lame-duck presidency can do?

John Fea   |  November 3, 2020

James Buchanan set us up for a Civil War. And as Heather Cox Richardson reminds us in this Slate interview conducted by Rebecca Onion, Benjamin Harrison saddled Grover Cleveland with an economic disaster often described as the “Panic of 1893.”...

Moral Capitalism

John Fea   |  July 3, 2019

Georgetown University historian Michael Kazin points us toward a better way: What kind of economy do Democrats believe in? Joe Biden calls for “stronger labor laws and a tax code that rewards [the] middle class.” Bernie Sanders wants to raise taxes...

Day 3 of the 2018 Princeton Seminar

John Fea   |  July 25, 2018

Day 3 is in the books!  (For posts on Day 1 and 2 click here). We covered a lot of content today.  I spent the morning lecturing on the seventeenth-century Chesapeake.  After lunch, we started on the Puritans and Massachusetts...

Mitt Romney and Grover Cleveland

John Fea   |  September 28, 2012

Georgetown political historian Michael Kazin asks which past U.S. president best exemplifies the ideology of today’s GOP and its presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.  His answer: Grover Cleveland, a Democrat.  Here is a taste of Kazin’s piece at The New Republic:...

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