History Buzz March 9, 2012: Julian Zelizer: Dual life as scholar, mainstream news pundit

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Zelizer: Dual life as scholar, mainstream news pundit Source: Daily Princetonian, 3-9-12 Related: Top Newsmakers: This Week… Julian Zelizer: Assessing the Bush Presidency & “Decision Points” in the Media, Edited by Bonnie K. Goodman, HNN, 10-11-10 Purchase this photo Photo by Ananda Zhu History and Wilson [...]

History Op-eds February 17, 2012: Jules Witcover A brokered convention?

FEATURED HISTORIANS A brokered convention? Source: Baltimore Sun, 2-17-12 The winnowing process in the Republican presidential nomination race has reduced the field to four candidates — Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich– each of whom has a legitimate rationale to keep going.Mr. Romney continues to have the most money and largest field [...]

History Buzz February 9, 2012: Dr. Boyce Watkins: What is President Obama’s Role in Black History?

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP What is President Obama’s Role in Black History? Source: News One, 2-9-12 As I’ve run around the country giving Black History Month speeches, I’ve been thinking a great deal about where we are and where we are going as a community; I’ve also been asked [...]

Featured Historian Matthew Dallek: Mitt Romney is no George Romney

FEATURED HISTORIANS Matthew Dallek: Mitt Romney is no George Romney Source: Politico, 12-1-11 Romney has claimed that his greatest political inspiration was George Romney, the author says. | AP Photo Close Mitt Romney is casting himself as the lone Washington outsider in the Republican presidential field with the best shot at defeating President Barack Obama. [...]

Featured Historian Julian Zelizer: What Newt Gingrich offers the GOP

FEATURED HISTORIANS Julian Zelizer: What Newt Gingrich offers the GOP Source: CNN, 11-28-11 Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich drew a great deal of attention in the CNN National Security Debate on Tuesday. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Newt Gingrich got the endorsement of the New Hampshire Union Leader Julian Zelizer says Gingrich aids GOP by putting focus on [...]

Featured Historian Julian E. Zelizer: What happened to spirit of 9/12?

FEATURED HISTORIANS What happened to spirit of 9/12? Source: Julian E. Zelizer, CNN, 9-12-11 Former President George W. Bush, first lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama at the 9/11 Memorial in New York during the 1oth anniversary observance. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Julian Zelizer: Politicians of both parties pledged to work together after 9/11 He says [...]

Featured Historian Gil Troy: Still Smoldering Ten Years after 9/11 — Yet Still Hopeful

FEATURED HISTORIANS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 9-6-11 Ten years ago, 19 Islamist terrorists hijacked four airplanes, murdered nearly three thousand people, destroyed the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, and damaged one side of the Pentagon. Our therapeutic culture encourages us to “move on,” rather than wallowing in anger. And we are supposed to seek [...]

Featured Historians Tevi Troy: What’s Obama Reading?

FEATURED HISTORIANS What’s Obama Reading? Source: National Review Online, 8-23-11 On this summer’s presidential book list, fiction trumps reality. The reports are in about the books President Obama is looking at on his annual trip to Martha’s Vineyard. According to reports from the Los Angeles Times and the AP, Obama purchased five books on his [...]

Featured Historians Julian E. Zelizer: It’s too early to name Bachmann, Perry front-runners

FEATURED HISTORIANS Julian E. Zelizer: It’s too early to name Bachmann, Perry front-runners Source: Julian E. Zelizer, CNN, 8-22-11 STORY HIGHLIGHTS No votes have been cast, but some Republicans have been declared front-runners Julian Zelizer: Activists, media and donors usurping presidential selection process He says Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry have been elevated to front-runner [...]

Featured Historians Tevi Troy: What books are the GOP 2012 contenders reading?

FEATURED HISTORIANS What books are the GOP 2012 contenders reading? Source: Tevi Troy, WaPo, 8-19-11 When Democratic politicians brag about the books they read, they usually highlight big-name New-York-Times-bestseller-list kind of works. Think Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat ,” David McCullough’s biographies, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals” and anything by David Brooks. Reading [...]

Featured Historians Julian E. Zelizer: Americans want security for 2012

FEATURED HISTORIANS Julian E. Zelizer: Americans want security for 2012 Source: Julian E. Zelizer, CNN, 8-15-11 STORY HIGHLIGHTS Julian Zelizer: Economic security is going to be defining theme of 2012 race Americans want to know jobs are safe and available, he says Zelizer: Neither party has done a good job developing policies for economic security [...]

Featured Historians Julian E. Zelizer: Where are the Democrats’ ideas?

FEATURED HISTORIANS Julian E. Zelizer: Where are the Democrats’ ideas? Source: Julian E. Zelizer, 8-8-11 STORY HIGHLIGHTS Lately, the silence of liberalism has been striking, says Julian E. Zelizer During the debate over the debt ceiling, Republicans hammered home their point, he says Yet the Democratic response was mostly half-hearted, he says Zelizer: Unless Democrats [...]

Featured Historians Gil Troy: Wanted: A President Who is Tougher Than Terrycloth

FEATURED HISTORIANS By Gil Troy, 8-8-11 The downgrading of America’s credit rating just days after the debt ceiling fight ended risk branding Barack Obama’s presidency as an historic failure. The S and P analysts made it clear that they were passing political judgment on the United States, not just making an economic assessment. While Republicans [...]

Featured Historians Gil Troy: Obama at 50 Should Have More Faith in America

FEATURED HISTORIANS By Gil Troy, 8-4-11 Barack Obama turns fifty today, August 4th.  Both he and his country appear battered these days, as Obama’s White House recuperates from the bruising debt ceiling showdown and the United States remains stuck combating two wars along with one long-lasting recession.  But the progress Obama and America have made [...]

Featured Historians Julian Zelizer: The painful price of deficit hysteria — Debt Ceiling Showdown

FEATURED HISTORIANS Source: Julian Zelizer, Salon, 7-29-11 Library of Congress/AP Barry Goldwater and Paul Ryan Regardless of the outcome of the debt ceiling debate, conservatives have already scored a major victory over liberalism. Even if President Obama emerges from the struggle in stronger political shape than the GOP, the fiscalization of American politics — meaning [...]