Donald Trump and the Anti-New Deal Tradition
The phenomenon of Trumpism has represented a challenge for the United States but has been…
Author Lawrence Glickman
The Shelf Life of Trump
When I wrote “Setting the Table: Historians, Popular Food Writers, and Food History” for the Journal of…
It’s Food History Month at Process!
This month, the Journal of American History published a round table conversation on food history. The lead…
Putting the 2016 Election into Historical Context
How can we understand the 2016 presidential election in a broad context of American history?…
From Memory to History? The Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary
If 50th anniversaries of war tend to be the last grand occasion in which the…
The Pitfalls of Writing the First Draft of History
As an American political historian, I’m occasionally asked to offer thoughts about the current state…
Ad Wars: A Long History with an Uncertain Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNKAlt-mrWM For television viewers, the end of the 2016 campaign meant an end to political…
What Might Future History Dissertations About the 2016 Election Be Called?
Over the past few days, we asked our twitter followers the question “In the future,…
The 2016 Election and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
The unexpected result of the 2016 election sent shock waves through the Democratic party and…
From the Archives… Presidential Campaigns and Elections
As historians work to set this election season into historical context, it’s worth looking back…