The Republican National Congress isn't just attended by the Trump family and Hulk Hogan: The Smithsonian's political history curators are also there, collecting items that will help tell the story of the 2024 presidential election. @conversationus interviewed two of them about the items they're seeing and what they mean. "Because this convention is so united behind Trump, there’s less need to use signs and other materials to object to or support other candidates," says curator Jon Grinspan. "An absence of objects can say as much about a moment in time as a wealth of them."
When the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold.
As the U.S. approaches what is arguably the most important election of our lives, we can only wonder what the effect will be if an autocrat is elected president.
Join #DemocratsAbroad on July 10th, at 11am Eastern as Heather Cox Richardson discusses our current political situation in the context of #history.
161 years ago, more than 50,000 Americans died in the Battle of Gettysburg.
In the 21st century, residents of formerly Confederate states express greater support for political violence (even after adjusting for partisanship, race, gender & more).
Dr. Allan Lichtman, a #historian who has correctly predicted nine of the past ten presidential #elections, pulls no punches as he explains why #Biden must head the ticket if the #Democrats hope to win in 2024.
In a new Social Science History article Robert Lieberman argues that the study of US politics shares origins, concepts & methods with the field of comparative politics. Recognizing this helps us understand the current crisis of American democracy & governance.
Open access! https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.5
“I believe that Trump can be placed among a long line of demagogues who possess the skills needed to tap into the fears and anxieties of a group of people that perceives itself as marginalized, at risk and not in control.”
There’s nothing groundbreaking about protesters’ tactics of taking over university buildings or erecting encampments on college lawns.
These students – knowingly or unknowingly – are part of a long history of radical student organizing. There are echoes of both the protests against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 70s and more recently, of South African apartheid in the 1980s.
It’s been 1 year since Seattle’s Mayor signed a racial and social justice law, placing its existing Race and Social Justice Initiative under the city’s office of civil rights and charging the whole city government with ‘implementing change toward ending institutional racism.’
“The problem is not a general lack of historical knowledge but its disparity along racial lines. Black students do know this history, or at least more of it than their white peers.”
#RomancingTheVote, a genre romance authors-let effort that raised over US$750,000 for the 2020 and 2022 elections, mostly through silent auctions and funneling donations to Democratic candidates.
They're ramping up their efforts again, but since Xitter is, well, shitty, you can sign up for email notices here: https://forms.gle/h4yHf8VKQmsGaNQS8
The donation form will be open from the second week of June, so donors can send the final pictures and descriptions in. The auction will run from July 1st through July 5th.
Just over 40 hours into the five day auction, another milestone: #RomancingTheVote 2024 edition has already raised $100K to help folks vote in the #2024Election
The #RomancingTheVote 2024 auction ends in just over two hours (8PM EDT); the proceeds benefit Fair Fight and VoteRiders--because in a democracy, everyone should be able and allowed to vote.
the auction, with over 765 items on offer, is here: