Think Originally Posted: February 15, 2016 FDR’s Four Freedoms In early 1941, American entry into world war seemed like a growing possibility. With that in mind, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke in his State of the Union address about America’s role in the fight for freedom: freedom of speech, freedom from want, freedom of religion […]
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SMU News Originally Posted: February 12, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) – For Americans who came of age in the turbulent 60s and 70s, George McGovern is largely remembered as a failed Democratic presidential hopeful whose 1972 candidacy was pegged to his opposition to the Vietnam War. In the first major biography of McGovern, one of two […]
The following is an excerpt from an SMU news release. READ MORE Republican rhetoric on immigration bodes well for Democrats in November EVAN McCORMICK emccormick@smu.edu In the grand scheme of the presidential race, McCormick doesn’t think either party has a candidate who has transcended their party’s general acceptance by the Latin-American community in the United […]
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SMU News Originally Posted: January 28, 2016 Below is an excerpt from an SMU news release: Trump’s biggest gamble yet? GOP frontrunner backs out of final debate before Iowa, N.H. votes SMU experts are available for interview on all things debatable in connection with tonight’s prime time matchup GOP contest, the final debate before Republicans […]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsRLS8PJVm0[/youtube] Jeffrey Engel, an award-winning American historian and director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU, weighs the showings of the three Democratic candidates – Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley – in the January 25, 2016, town hall.
Fox 4 Originally Posted: January 13, 2016 Jeffrey Engel, an award-winning American historian and director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU, analyzes President Obama’s final State of the Union speech, calling it “surprisingly confrontational.” [youtube]https://youtu.be/0bI2qXUvYDA[/youtube]
News Taco Originally Posted: December 17, 2015 By Aaron Sanchez, Commentary & Cuentos Aaron E. Sanchez is the editor of Commentary and Cuentos, a blog focused on issues of race, politics, and popular culture from a Latino perspective. The posts place these issues in historical, cultural, and intellectual context to better understand our present. Aaron […]
The New York Review of Books Originally Posted: December 3, 2015 The tenor of the national debate over immigration changed from the first minutes of Donald Trump’s speech in New York City on June 16 announcing that he was running for the Republican presidential nomination. “The US has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s […]
BYU Radio Originally Posted: November 24, 2015 Alexis McCrossen, a professor of U.S. social and cultural history, recently talked with “Top of Mind” host Julie Rose on BYUradio about time, including how we spend our leisure hours and how it influences our perception of others. From the show: “Our relationship to time in America is […]