In the 1976 election, Democrats won the presidency, a two-thirds supermajority in the House, and a filibuster-proof 61-vote Senate majority—four years later they suffered a loss that ushered in the 40 year period of voter cynicism, middle class decline and concentration of wealth that ended with the Trump presidency. Are there any lessons Democrats should take from the late 70s? Read my latest blog post.
My Blog: " Cognitive Dissident" (Formerly, Thinking While Teaching: Thoughts about teaching history, politics, and citizenship.")
Other writings, etc.:
Interview on A Braver Way podcast.
"Democracy Through Dialogue," Exeter Bulletin.
Scholarship
Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy, UNC Press, 2001.
The Damnable Dilemma: African-American Accommodation and Protest during World War I, Journal of American History, 1995
Human history in one short video
Course Syllabi, 1997-2026
Syllabi:
550: American Politics & Public Policy
410: United States, Colonial to 1860
220: Modern Peoples & Cultures
430: United States, 1941- present
556: Contemporary Latin America
566: Why are Poor Nations Poor?
TSRS 411: The World as Seen Through a Daily Newspaper
SRS425: Black Experience in White America
OLD WEBSITES: pre-9-21 version; an even earlier version.