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Charles Grassley (R-IA) History CheckMay 2, 2019

Senator Grassley says the New Deal didn’t work; historians have other ideas

Senator Grassley’s claim about the New Deal is stark and definitive. Quite simply, in his mind, it did not work. The historians who responded to our request for input disagreed strongly.

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Milton Friedman with a lot of money
Charles Schumer (D–NY) Democrats History CheckApril 2, 2019

Senator Chuck Schumer says corporations used to care; here’s how historians responded

Historians say… Bottom Line: Most historians who responded agree that Senator Schumer is on solid ground, but their caveats and the statements of the historians […]

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Talking Cold War
SenateFebruary 2, 2019

“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, […]

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SenateJanuary 27, 2019

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 […]

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SenateJanuary 15, 2019

#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 […]

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Marco Rubio (R–FL) Republicans SenateJuly 14, 2017

Sen. Marco Rubio: “Democracies very rarely start wars”

We look at the history of our hemisphere, here in the Western Hemisphere, and we see that up until about 25 years ago, most of […]

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Mike Lee (R–UT) Republicans SenateJuly 6, 2017

Sen. Mike Lee: We’ve lost sight of founder’s vision of federalism

Senator Lee made the comments below while discussing his new book, Written out of History. Historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg reviewed Lee’s book here. […]

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Ben Sasse (R–NE) Republicans SenateJuly 6, 2017

Sen. Ben Sasse: Kids today are more “insulated from work” than any time in history

How do we raise our kids better in an era of perpetual adolescence? Because that’s the new thing, right? Adolescence is a gift, the idea […]

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Democrats Patrick Leahy (D–VT) SenateJune 29, 2017

Sen. Patrick Leahy: Cold War Cuba restrictions treated people “as pawns in a political game”

How well did restricting travel by Americans to Cuba work from 1961 until 2014, when President Obama relaxed those Cold War restrictions, decades after the […]

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Democrats Patrick Leahy (D–VT) SenateJune 23, 2017

Sen. Patrick Leahy: Shelby County v. Holder “has taken this country back to an era before the Civil Rights movement”

But the Supreme Court’s decision [Shelby County v. Holder] has taken this country back to an era before the Civil Rights movement–a bad time in […]

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