Curators from the Smithsonian will be at the GOP convention collecting items from buttons to banners. Their goal: to add objects to the museum’s collection that will ‘make sense of our moment.’
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on William McKinley
Displaying all articles
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump adds to the long history of presidents and presidential candidates in the United States who have been the victims of gun violence.
President Trump was direct in announcing he had COVID-19. But presidents in the past have been very good at deceiving the public about the state of their health. Which direction will Trump go now?
President Woodrow Wilson told Black leaders, ‘Segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.’ He was one in a long line of racist American presidents.
The GOP was once the political home of anti-Catholicism. And the Vatican, it was believed, would use a Catholic president as a way to meddle in US politics.
Lyman Frank Baum’s classic allegory is a reminder that the populists have been on the march before.
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor of Health History, Glasgow Caledonian University
-
Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
-
Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
-
Professor of Journalism and Chair, Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Michigan State University
-
Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
-
Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
-
Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
-
Associate Professor, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia
-
Adjunct Instructor of History, Central Michigan University
