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The Effective Conservative Governance of Ike Eisenhower
The conservative successes of the Eisenhower administration have been too quickly forgotten.
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Geoffrey Kabaservice
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The American Conservative
on
October 15, 2022
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Politics, Not Public Good, Will Guide What We Know About Trump’s Health
That’s the lesson of Dwight Eisenhower’s serious heart attack.
by
William I. Hitchcock
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Made By History
on
October 8, 2020
Ike's Military-Industrial Complex, Six Decades Later
As Eisenhower predicted, there is no balance left, as U.S. policy is reduced to who we threaten, bomb, or occupy next.
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James P. Pinkerton
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The American Conservative
on
January 15, 2020
The Light of Battle Was in Their Eyes
The correspondence of Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall leading up to D-Day.
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Meredith Hindley
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Humanities
on
June 5, 2019
The Most Successful First 100 Days Of An Administration Didn't Belong To Who You Think
Dwight Eisenhower did more in his first hundred days than change laws—he changed a culture.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Esquire
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April 27, 2017
What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
The impact can linger not just for years but decades.
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Clay Risen
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Politico Magazine
on
February 6, 2025
Is Trump Hitler, or just… Woodrow Wilson?
Comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini obscures the basis of his mass appeal.
by
Ben Burgis
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Damage
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December 4, 2024
Trump's Deportation Model
A 1950s mass deportation campaign shows that abuse and dehumanization are intrinsic to immigrant detention.
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Ana Raquel Minian
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Dissent
on
October 31, 2024
The Year Election Night First Became a TV Event
In 1952, news stations combined two new technologies—the TV and the computer—to forever transform how voters experience election night.
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Jordan Friedman
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HISTORY
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October 28, 2024
‘No Antidote for Bad Polls’
In 1956, The New York Times, dismayed by wayward polls in the prior presidential race, sent teams of reporters across the nation to better gauge public opinion.
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W. Joseph Campbell
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The Conversation
on
October 8, 2024
One Man’s Quest to Restore the First-Ever Air Force One
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane is starting to look like itself again.
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Eric J. Wallace
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Atlas Obscura
on
August 1, 2024
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The Biden-Trump Rematch May Mark the End of an Era
Over the course of U.S. history, presidential rematches have signaled momentous political upheavals.
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Bruce J. Schulman
via
Made By History
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April 4, 2024
The Border Presidents and Civil Rights
Three US presidents from the South’s borders—Truman, Eisenhower, and Johnson—worked against Southern politicians to support civil and voting rights.
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David Goldfield
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Matthew Wills
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JSTOR Daily
on
March 31, 2024
Slave to the Bomb
We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.
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Erik Baker
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The Saturday Evening Post
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March 28, 2024
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‘Atoms for Peace’ Was Never All That Peaceful—And the World Is Still Living With the Consequences
The U.S. sought to rebrand nuclear power as a source of peace, but this message helped mask a violent history.
by
Tommy Song
via
Made By History
on
December 8, 2023
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.
by
David Corn
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Mother Jones
on
September 9, 2022
U.S. Deliberation During Hungary’s 1956 Uprising Offers Lessons on Restraint
As the war in Ukraine worsens, there’s little debate about Western policy choices. This is a mistake.
by
Branko Marcetic
via
Current Affairs
on
June 1, 2022
When the United Fruit Company Tried to Buy Guatemala
How a sitting, elected national government found itself in the position of having to buy its own country.
by
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
via
The Nation
on
December 7, 2021
Executive Privilege Was Out of Control Even Before Steve Bannon Claimed It
A short history of a made-up constitutional doctrine that gives presidents too much power.
by
Timothy Noah
via
The New Republic
on
October 18, 2021
The Day Nuclear War Almost Broke Out
In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.
by
Elizabeth Kolbert
via
The New Yorker
on
October 5, 2020
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