Feb 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
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...
Feb 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Feb 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
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...
Feb 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
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...
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...
