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C-SPAN’s POTUS Poll
Our once and future colleague Father Taylor recently linked to the results of C-SPAN's most recent survey of historians regarding the reputations and legacies of American Presidents. The sixty-five survey participants included an interesting mix of academics and...
Presidents Day 2009
An Historian-To-Be Looks At The Kutler Controversy
Jeremy Young, a doctoral student in history at Indiana University and the founder of progressivehistorians.com, offers this observation after reporting the rejection by the American Historical Review of Peter D. Klingman's paper about Stanley I. Kutler's Abuse Of...
37 & 16
On The Caucus blog in today's New York Times, political reporter Katharine Q. Seelye has an interesting post about President Obama's intense feeling of connection with Abraham Lincoln and the ways in which he is expressing it publicly. The piece begins with a general...
When The Going Gets Weird On The Late Show
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 decision to forswear acting...
2.12.09
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 Lincoln's death, but...
Taylor Leaving as Nixon Foundation Executive Director
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 Bruno,...
Letter From The Editor
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...
The “Abuse Of Power” Controversy Goes On
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 Watergate tape...
Obama Dilemma: Learn From History Or Repeat It?
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 1993 - and...