The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn he misrepresents the country’s past.
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History These addresses are more than just a series of individual speeches. Rhetoric scholars Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson argue ...
The CIA ‘Now Favors the Lab Theory’ For Covid-19’s Origin Weekend Short: Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s ‘Our New Neighbors at Ponkapog’ So many American civic holidays of my youth seem to be ...
At the time, the Napoleonic wars were raging across Europe, and the Royal Navy had taken to seizing American sailors at sea and press-ganging them into their undermanned fleet. Already infuriated ...
At WXPR, we honor Black history and culture throughout the year—through the stories we share, the music we play, and the ...
The political history collections at the National Museum of American History, where I am a curator specializing in the history of presidential campaigns and campaign rhetoric, include several objects ...