Tag: donald trump
Twenty-Five Civil War & Reconstruction Historians File Amicus Brief With Supreme Court on 14th Amendment Insurrection Clause
Twenty-five historians have filed a “Friend of the Court” (amicus curiae) brief with the Supreme Court giving the history of the 14th Amendment’s “Insurrection Clause”…
Posted in Civil War
The New Yorker on Why Republicans Have Had Such Problems With the Civil War in 2024!
In my household growing up my father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat. My mom and dad would sometimes argue about their…
Posted in Civil War
Former President Trump Says Civil War Could Have Been Avoided Through Negotiation
Former President Donald Trump just involved himself in the historiography of the Civil War during a speech in Iowa today. It was not an event…
Effort by Trump Administration to Alter History Teaching Condemned by Actual Historians
The final effort by the Trump administration to alter the teaching of history was a report from the newly minted 1776 Commission released on Martin…
Historian Caroline Janney Looks at Trump’s The Lost Cause in the WaPo
The Washington Post has an essay today by Caroline Janney about the Lost Cause and Donald Trump. Janney is a leading historian of the Civil…
Recent Comments