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Snow(e) Job: Tokenism is not Bipartisanship
By Gil Troy, HNN, 10-16-09 When Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine voted for the Senate Finance Committee’s health bill this week, Democrats rejoiced. “We have today a bipartisan bill,” … more →
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Snow(e) Job: Tokenism is not Bipartisanship
giltroy wrote 1 month ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 10-16-09 When Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine voted for the Senate Finance Committe … more →
Obama's Speech Tries Breaking Reagan's Summer Curse
giltroy wrote 2 months ago: By Gil Troy, History News Network, 9-10-09 In his Wednesday night speech to a joint session of Congr … more →
Yes Rush, Moderates Make Great Presidents -- and Book Subjects
giltroy wrote 4 months ago: By Gil Troy, History News Network, 7-25-09 In one his many riffs this week against Barack Obama … more →
Obama Beware: Presidential Magic Can Prove Tragic
giltroy wrote 4 months ago: By Gil Troy, History News Network, 7-22-09 Barack Hussein Obama has now been President for six month … more →
Michael Jackson: The King of Pop Made His Mark
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giltroy wrote 5 months ago: How Jackson healed America Performer used his celebrity to blur the lines between black and white By … more →
Dueling Narratives: Obama's Deconstructionist Diplomacy versus Netanyahu's History as Tragedy
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giltroy wrote 5 months ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 6-16-09 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on Sunday imitated yet … more →
Gil Troy: Obama's 100 Days: Partisan, Moderate or Both?
giltroy wrote 7 months ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 4-21-09 Countering America’s tradition of moderate, bipartisan presidential leader … more →
Gil Troy: The 2008 Election as History (OAH)
giltroy wrote 7 months ago: The History News Network recorded this video of Gil Troy’s talk at the annual meeting of the O … more →
Gil Troy: Blogging from the Center as an Historian During a Contested Campaign
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giltroy wrote 8 months ago: Blogging from the Center as an Historian During a Contested Campaign: Politically Anomalous and Acad … more →
Gil Troy: It's Time to Mobilize Obama's Army for a Values Revolution
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giltroy wrote 9 months ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 2-19-09 The story of Barack Obama’s brilliant grassroots organizing as a candidate … more →
Gil Troy: Is Obamania Stopping Us From Questioning Obama's Competence?
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giltroy wrote 9 months ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 2-13-09 Wow, the descent from “Yes We Can” to “I screwed up” has been rapid – and … more →
Yes, Obama Should Press for Consensus
giltroy wrote 10 months ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 2-3-09 In a recent HNN posting, Professor John Grigg urged President Obama to stop … more →
President Obama the Liberal Nationalist
giltroy wrote 10 months ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 1-21-09 Inauguration Day, 2009 in Washington, DC was grueling but inspiring. The m … more →
Obama's Inaugural Competition: His Predecessors and His own Eloquence
giltroy wrote 10 months ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 1-18-09 Americans love a good speech and particularly a great inaugural address. A … more →
Obama and the Ghosts of Presidents Past
giltroy wrote 10 months ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 1-12-09 A clever graphic in Sunday’s New York Times Week In Review adds some presi … more →
HNN Debate: Should Obama Lead from the Center or Not?
giltroy wrote 11 months ago: HNN Debate: Should Obama Lead from the Center or Not? By Allan Lichtman and Gil Troy HNN, 12-15-08 M … more →
Is Bush's Greatest Achievement a Non-Achievement: No Subsequent 9/11s?
giltroy wrote 12 months ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 12-4-08 In yet another example of “blowback” actually undermining Islamist terrori … more →
Obama's "Historic" Triumph: Did He Win or was it a GO George – Get Out George W. victory by default?
giltroy wrote 1 year ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 11-12-08 Historians have to navigate carefully when entering the strange, alluring … more →
The Obama-McCain "Return Night" Reconciliation: Lasting Hope or Fleeting Moment?
giltroy wrote 1 year ago: By Gil Troy, HNN, 11-5-08 On Thursday, in Georgetown, Delaware, the losing and winning candidates fr … more →
