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Where are the updates and when will they resume?
The editor has been busy feeding the interactive timeline and preparing for the next round of visualizations. The timeline is now current up to Valentine’s […]
Congress and the administration are using and abusing history at least six times a day. Historians might have something to say about this.
I wasn’t prepared for the volume. When I started the Political Uses of the Past Project, based on my home-brewed code that scanned public records […]
“We were involved in some coups”: How to avoid an inconvenient reckoning and more on the Cold War
The project is still getting caught up while simultaneously working on visualizations for the data; these will be posted soon and updated regularly. For now, […]
Trump’s the president, but Congress seems to want the nation’s founders to lead the way
In this installment of the Political Uses of the Past Project, the revolutionary generation seems to be on the minds of members of the House. […]
Catching up: A grab-bag of political uses of the past from the shutdown Senate
The Political Uses of the Past Project is sorting through the avalanche of statements that the new Congress has brought. This post includes two dozen […]
On the House Floor, the shutdown brings out the presidents and the precedents
Reagan, Truman, Kennedy, Clinton and both Bushes made appearances in congressional speeches about the shutdown last week, and other speeches focused on the unprecedented facts […]
You can’t impeach a president who has done more than any other president in the history of our country; that’s the way Trump views it
You can’t impeach somebody that’s doing a great job. … I’ve probably done more in the first two years than any President, any administration, in […]
#WWLD? Evoking Lincoln for Some Shutdown Shaming
Based on some lines from the Gettysburg Address, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) has concluded that there is no way “President Lincoln, the founder of the […]
Highest ever, lowest ever, best ever, worst ever, and a series of historic firsts: Trump celebrates the new year with a ball drop of history-centered hyperbole
A series of generally unscripted appearances by the president has provided the Political Uses of the Past Project with a bevy of unusual history-centered claims. […]
Today’s summary: We will be hearing more about Clinton’s welfare reform, and soon
As the Political Uses of the Past project continues to divide time between improving the back end and updating the front, these posts have fallen […]