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Dr. Jeff Engel, Director of the Center for Presidential History, appears on Good Day to talk about challenges facing the Trump administration

Fox4 Originally Posted: February 20, 2017 The first 100 days: Trump vs the press. Watch  

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Event: March 1, THIRD RAIL SERIES | Hope or Alarm in the Age of Trump

Event Date: March 1, 2017 Time: 7 pm *NEW Location: Mack Ballroom, Third Floor, Umphrey Lee Center, SMU 3300 Dyer StreetDallas, TX 75205 RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/third-rail-series-hope-or-alarm-in-the-age-of-trump-tickets-32162592179

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Jeff Engel, Center for Presidential History, joins Good Day on FOX4 to discuss Trump’s executive orders on immigration and refugees

Fox4 Originally Posted: January 30, 2017 WATCH video of Jeff Engel, Directory of the Center for Presidential History discuss President Trumps recent executive orders regarding immigration and refugees. WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House on Sunday vigorously defended President Donald Trump’s immigration restrictions, as protests against the order spread throughout the country. Some Republicans in Congress […]

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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner T.J. Stiles visits SMU

Event date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Location: SMU, McCord Auditorium, 306 Dallas Hall This event is cosponsored with SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner T.J. Stiles argues that one of the great turning points in the life of George Armstrong Custer came in Texas in 1865–66. […]

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Jeffrey A. Engel, Center for Presidential History, returns to Fox News

Fox4 Originally Posted: December 13, 2016 Jeffrey A. Engel, an award-winning American history scholar and director of SMU Center for Presidential History returns to Fox News to discuss Trump’s growing cabinet: Energy, State, and National Security Adviser. http://www.fox4news.com/good-day/223601299-video#.WFFZtlVP6J0

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Trump presidency: Five bumpy White House transitions

BBC News Originally Posted: November 11, 2016 Dedman College expert Jeffrey A. Engel, Ph.D., is quoted in this BBC story originally published on Nov. 11. Jefferey Engel is an award-winning American history scholar and director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU. He is an expert on the U.S. presidency and American diplomatic history. By Courtney […]

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Watch: Donald Trump’s Victory was Unexpected

Fox 4 Originally Posted: November 9, 2016 Professor Jeffrey Engel, director of SMU’s Center for Presidential History, looks at Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday in the race for the White House, including how Trump makes the transition from campaign rhetoric to presidential rhetoric. [youtube]https://youtu.be/djYdvKSZjg4[/youtube]

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SMU’s Center for Presidential History event this week, author discusses new biography: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: October 23, 2016 “There is a tide in the affairs of men,” wrote William Shakespeare, “which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.” “There is a tide in the affairs of men,” wrote William Shakespeare, […]

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Everything you think you know about Reagan is wrong

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: September 22, 2016 By: Jeffrey A. Engel, an American history scholar and director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Email: jaengel@smu.edu Woe to the Republican candidate who doesn’t pledge to be the Gipper reincarnated. But woe to the American people who try to find a candidate today who […]

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Questions of health and trustworthiness, removing moderators from debates, and the ‘deplorables’

SMU News Originally Posted: September 13, 2016 Below is an excerpt from an SMU press release. READ MORE TRUMP’S QUESTIONING OF CLINTON’S HEALTH HAS SHADES OF 1988 JEFFREY ENGEL jaengel@mail.smu.edu On the history of candidate health as an issue in presidential politics… “It’s really interesting to me as a historian that it doesn’t take much, […]