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History As It Happens: Ukraine and NATO

Washington Times In this episode of History As It Happens, historian Jeffrey Engel, the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, discusses the origins of today’s controversy over whether NATO should welcome Ukraine into the alliance. Since the negotiations over German reunification in 1990, the questions of when and where […]

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The Department of History and Center for Presidential History invite applications for SMU George W. Bush Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship

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Key events in American history over the past decade

FOX 4 – The dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center provided a striking image of five living U.S. presidents shoulder to shoulder for the event now ten years past. It was also the start of SMU’s Center for Presidential History. Good Day talks to the center’s director, Dr. Jeff Engel, about what a […]

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How historians view Trump – and how Trump sees himself

CBS News There’s at least one thing that Donald Trump’s critics and supporters can agree on about his presidency, according to Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University: “He came in to be a disrupter, and of all of his accomplishments, I think it’s very easy to say that he accomplished […]

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Presidential historian Jeffrey Engel quoted in Business Insider and Texas Standard

Originally Posted: March 21, 2021 Presidential historian Jeffrey Engel is quoted in Business Insider saying that after two impeachments, former President Trump is unlikely to ever be elected president again. He also told Texas Standard that Trump’s second impeachment trial demonstrated a remarkable disconnect between reality and senators’ votes.

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Historian Brian Franklin previews Joe Biden’s Inauguration and discusses past Presidential Inaugurations

KTLA 5 Morning News Originally Posted: January 20, 2021 Associate Director of the SMU Center for Presidential History Brian Franklin joined us live with his insight on the history of past Presidential Inauguration and a preview of the Inauguration of Joe Biden. For more information on Brian and the SMU Center for Presidential History, you […]

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America faces its fourth existential crisis, and President-elect Biden will need to go big

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: January 17, 2021 Jeffrey A. Engel is a history professor and founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He wrote this opinion column for The Dallas Morning News. What is an American? More accurately, who? The question fuels our current political woes, drives Donald Trump’s […]

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Presidential Historian Reviews Presidents in Film & TV, from ‘Lincoln’ to ‘The Comey Rule’

Vanity Fair Originally Posted: October 23, 2020 Presidential historian Jeffrey Engel fact checks presidential scenes from movies and television including ‘Frost/Nixon,’ ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Pearl Harbor,’ ‘Vice,’ ‘Saturday Night Live,’ ‘The Comey Rule,’ ‘W.,’ ‘The Special Relationship,’ ‘The Wind and the Lion,’ ‘Thirteen Days,’ ‘LBJ’ and ‘John Adams’ and analyzes their believability and execution. WATCH

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The Outsized Role of the President in Race Relations

Smithsonian Originally Posted: October 8, 2020 resident Barack Obama’s love of the Martin Luther King quote “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” went so deep that he had it woven into a rug in the Oval Office. For Obama, writes author Mychal Denzsel Smith, the quote was used “to temper the hope […]

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No one can predict the crises a president will face, so it’s better to vote on character (OPINION)

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: August 30, 2020 Jeffrey A. Engel directs the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He wrote this column for The Dallas Morning News. (OPINION) The Dallas Morning News is publishing a multi-part series on important issues for voters to consider as they choose a president this year. This […]