Feb 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Joaquin Phoenix’s appearance on last night’s Late Show is being widely deconstructed on the internet and the radio. It’s true that he hasn’t hitherto been known as a pillar of dependability or stability —his past history and his recent...
Feb 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today, of course, is Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. This portrait, by George P. A. Healy, was one of the fifteen painted of the sixteenth President by the most popular portraitist of the day. It was painted in 1887, twenty-two years after...
Feb 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
John H. Taylor, President Nixon’s former chief of staff and executive director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation since 1990, is leaving his Foundation position on Feb. 15 to accept the call of the Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles, J. Jon...
Feb 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
This afternoon the History News Network site published a statement by Robert A. Schneider, professor of European history at Indiana University and the editor of the American Historical Review. Regular TNN readers will recall that the AHR is the journal to which...
Feb 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
It has been a week since the New York Times published Patricia Cohen’s article about an article which historian Peter D. Klingman submitted to the American Historical Review arguing that University of Wisconsin Professor Stanley I. Kutler’s book of...
Feb 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s column, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann limn the major choice President Obama is about to have to make: President Obama must now decide whether he’ll govern from the center or from the left. President Bill Clinton faced the exact same decision in...
