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Michael Vorenberg

@mikevorenberg.bsky.social
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historian, professor, New Yorker caption contest winner (twice!)

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 03/05/2025
President Donald Trump will host a military parade marking the 250th birthday of the US Army — as well as his own 79th birthday — on June 14, the administration announced Friday.
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Trump Will Celebrate Army’s Birthday - And His Own - With a Parade
President Donald Trump will host a military parade marking the 250th birthday of the US Army — as well as his own 79th birthday — on June 14, the administration announced Friday.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
...Gordon Granger, who issued General Order No. 3 on June 19, 1865, which declared that all enslaved people in Texas were free. This is the basis of Juneteenth. The military doesn't want to celebrate a holiday that it helped to make possible. Think about that for a moment.
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Michael Vorenberg @mikevorenberg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Punditry abounding on Cleveland vs Trump. Consider, in conjunction, the oft-reposted Ann Telnaes cartoon (seen here); and Richard Hofstadter: “out of heartfelt conviction [Cleveland] gave to the interests what many a lesser politician might have sold them for a price.” So... one difference at least!
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Michael Vorenberg @mikevorenberg.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Pleased to see not just one but two Brown University colleagues (Keisha Blain and Noliwe Rooks) featured in today’s Politico article on “How Joe Biden Will Be Remembered” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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11 Historians Predict How Joe Biden Will Be Remembered
Will he be seen as a total failure? Or the best one-term president in history?
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Michael Vorenberg @mikevorenberg.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
BSKYers in Jan. '17 PM article included: @jonathandarman.bsky.social, @jbf1755.bsky.social, @davidgreenberg.bsky.social, @pastpunditry.bsky.social, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social, @margaretomara.bsky.social, @jrakove.bsky.social, @hcrichardson.bsky.social, @joshuamzeitz.bsky.social, @zelizer.bsky.social
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Michael Vorenberg @mikevorenberg.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Cited in prior post: M. Sinha on Johnson-Trump parallel: www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/o... C. Brettschneider, The Presidents and The People (chap. 6): wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Opinion | Donald Trump, Meet Your Precursor (Published 2019)
Andrew Johnson pioneered the recalcitrant racism and impeachment-worthy subterfuge the president is fond of.
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Michael Vorenberg @mikevorenberg.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
PM (PoliticoMagzine) article of 2017: www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
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Can History Prepare Us for the Trump Presidency?
Twenty-one historians explain which moments in history are closest to this one—and what we can learn.
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Michael Vorenberg @mikevorenberg.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Re-reading the PM article of Jan. '17--Historians’ perspective on precedents to 1st Trump presidency. Wondering if they would stick with choice for Trump 2.0. I still say A. Johnson, esp. in light of great 2019 NYT op-ed by @profmsinha.bsky.social and ch. 6 of 2024 book by @democracyprof.bsky.social
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Michael Vorenberg @mikevorenberg.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
after 20+ years avoiding social media I'm going in because it's a big year ahead; for example-100th anniversary of Scopes trial. History tells us William Jennings Bryan played the fool in that one. Looking at the U.S. today, I wonder if he won the war even if he lost the battle
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Michael Vorenberg @mikevorenberg.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
On the Scopes trial, see the following by the late great Jeffrey P. Moran www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/p...
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The Scopes Trial, Second Edition (9781319113155) | Macmillan Learning
Request a sample or learn about ordering options for The Scopes Trial, 2nd Edition by Jeffrey P. Moran from the Macmillan Learning Instructor Catalog.
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