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The Morning Call
18 Oct 2024
Your View: Democracy faces severe test in November election
The Morning Call
18 Oct 2024
In his 2020 book “Lincoln on the Verge”, author Ted Widmer recounts how President Washington, in preparation for his farewell address, warned against “a false kind of patriotism” that mindlessly ...
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How Republicans’ 'private' support for 'cautionary scoundrel' Pence could dictate his fate: report
Alternet 17 Oct 2024
City University of New York presidential historian and former Clinton speechwriter Ted Widmer told Leibovich, "Pence is always going to occupy this complex, almost unfathomable place, He says that by ...
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The Specter of Mike Pence
The Atlantic 17 Oct 2024
“Pence is always going to occupy this complex, almost unfathomable place,” the presidential historian Ted Widmer of the City University of New York told me ... “Nobody was as true blue of a Republican or loyal vice president as Pence was,” Widmer said.
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History shows America there's a way past our divisions
The Independent (inde) 11 Aug 2024
In 1776, the insightful Thomas Paine wrote. ... " ... Thirteen Days to Washington," historian Ted Widmer details the 16th president's post-election train ride to the inauguration amidst the threat of Southern secession ... We enshrined women's right to vote ...
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Charita Goshay: Aging is just one factor in determining fitness for the Oval Office
The Alliance Review 14 Jul 2024
Trump's nonstop grifting, his willful and dismissive ignorance of the "plodding matters of governance" as the historian Ted Widmer describes it; the nonsensical rambling, and the glomming onto the accomplishments of his late uncle, an M.I.T.
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Fighting had not started, but Lincoln won the day on July 4, 1861, and began to win the war
South Bend Tribune 29 Jun 2024
That leaning was confirmed a half century later when, on July 4, 2021, I came across an essay by historian Ted Widmer that examined Lincoln’s 1861 Fourth of July, his first as president ... But, Widmer ...
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Guebert: The Fourth of July that saved the nation
The Daily Republic 26 Jun 2024
That leaning was confirmed a half century later when, on July 4, 2021, I came across an essay by historian Ted Widmer that examined Lincoln’s 1861 Fourth of July, his first as president.
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The rise and fall of President Martin Van Buren
Sandhills Express 25 Feb 2024
“They are remarkable,” said historian Ted Widmer ... (National Park Service)“Martin Van Buren” by Ted Widmer, from “The American Presidents Series” (Times Books), in Hardcover and eBook formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org.
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Liz Cheney read my book: a historian, Lincoln and the lessons of January 6
The Observer 10 Dec 2023
From this historian, it brings a different kind of gratitude ... ‘The Lincoln shiver’ ... Read more ... Photograph ... Ted Widmer, distinguished lecturer at the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, is the author of Lincoln on the Verge ... .
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The Marshall News Messenger
31 Oct 2023
October 1973: When the wheels really came off
The Marshall News Messenger
31 Oct 2023
These challenges find a distant but instructive mirror in the hellscape Americans witnessed 50 Octobers ago ... Some have never healed ... On Oct ... On Oct ... — Ted Widmer is a distinguished lecturer at Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York.
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Log Cabin Democrat
30 Sep 2023
New releases at Faulkner County Library
Log Cabin Democrat
30 Sep 2023
Large Print.. 12 months to live / James Patterson. 23 ½ lies / James Patterson. At the coffee shop of curiosities / Heather Webber. Backstory / Susan Page Davis. Beyond these war-torn lands / Cynthia Roemer ... Overholser ... A ... Lincoln on the verge / Ted Widmer ... .
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The Berkshire Eagle
24 Jun 2023
The Mount will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its Summer Lecture Series with a weekend ...
The Berkshire Eagle
24 Jun 2023
... affairs correspondent Anne Nelson and New York Times contributor Ted Widmer, who will share their war-reporting experiences and observations on ongoing global conflicts, including the war in Ukraine.
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'Most lifelike' Lincoln portrait on display after years in obscurity
Stars and Stripes 11 Feb 2023- 1
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