Republican National Convention 
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
8/24/2020
Trump’s Convention May Be The Culmination Of Decades Of Republicans’ Dirty Politics
by Julian Zelizer
The low-road tactics have proved to be effective. They play to the worst fears of voters, and they have succeeded in negatively shaping how parts of the electorate view Democratic candidates.
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SOURCE: Saved by History
8/27/2020
Stars and Stripes and Blasphemy
by L.D. Burnett
What we heard from Mike Pence was a white evangelical Christian swapping out the Savior for the United States flag.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/27/2020
Republican Convention Offers Apocryphal Quotes Amid Revisionist History
Speakers at the Republican National Convention had a loose relationship with historical facts.
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SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
8/27/2020
GOP Convention: Night 3
by John Fea
Historian of American Religion John Fea dissects how the Republicans used and misused history in the third day of their national convention on Wednesday.
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