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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SMU NEWS – When the George W. Bush Presidential Center opened to the public on the SMU campus on May 1, 2013, it launched a strong but independent partnership with the University that continues to provide measurable benefits to the North Texas community. From bringing world leaders to Dallas, to boosting the regional economy through jobs and tourism, […]
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 […]
Washington Times It’s a small group no one wants to be a member of. Since the dawn of the republic only 10 elected presidents have been rejected by voters in their bids for a second term. Only one of those, Grover Cleveland, was able to win a non-consecutive term after losing his first re-election campaign. […]
In a Washington Times podcast, “History as it Happens,” presidential historian Jeffrey Engel discussed the long-ranging effects of President Biden’s commitment to Ukraine against a longstanding enemy.
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 […]
CBS DFW Originally Posted: Jan. 8, 2021 Historians and political experts are reacting to an announcement by President Donald Trump that breaks a long-standing tradition. When Joe Biden takes the oath of office on Jan. 20, President Trump says he won’t be there. The president announced the news Friday, Jan 8 on Twitter. He said, […]
KERA Originally Posted: Feb 7, 2020 Donald Trump is only the third president in American history to be impeached. Dallas-based historian Jeffrey A. Engel sat down with Think’s Krys Boyd to discuss how Trump’s impeachment and acquittal might influence American history and the future of the presidency. Some have criticized the impeachment process as being too […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: Nov. 9, 2019 Thirty years ago this week the impossible happened: the Berlin Wall fell. More accurately it was crushed by Berliners both East and West who’d had enough of the scar across their cityscape. Like crowds before them, in Leipzig and Dresden in East Germany, in Budapest and Warsaw […]