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2/7/2021
To Save Democracy, We Need Historical Memory to be "Hot"
by Shannon Bontrager
Historical memory can run hot or cold; hot memory, when we make ourselves vulnerable to the pain of the past, is a force that will ensure America doesn't just move on from the needless death of the COVID pandemic or the violence of the Capitol insurrection without committing to justice and accountability.
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SOURCE: CNN
2/1/2021
Amanda Gorman's Success Stirred A Bleak Undercurrent
by Manisha Sinha
Some critical response to young poet Amanda Gorman's Inaugural reading echoes the racist dismissal and condescenscion contemporaries leveled at the founding-era work of Phillis Wheatley.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/22/2021
Why Biden’s Inaugural Address Succeeded
Joe Biden's inaugural address won't be remembered as a masterpiece of rhetoric. But it succeeded in presenting an authentic and realistic picture of Biden's plans to lead the nation in crisis, argues The Atlantic writer.
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1/25/2021
Biden's Inaugural and the Return of History
by Paul J. Welch Behringer
Joseph Biden's inaugural address signals a willingness to return to learning from history that may encourage the empathy and humilty elected officials need to solve the nation's problems.
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SOURCE: NPR
1/17/2021
In His Inaugural Address, Biden Seeks To Move Past 'American Carnage'
Historians of the presidency and political rhetoric discuss how Biden's address on Wednesday may adapt the traditions of the inaugural address to an unprecedented context.
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1/17/2020
The Politics of an Inauguration Unlike Any Other
by Michael A. Genovese
Joe Biden's inauguration will be unlike any other, but he will need to draw on inaugural traditions of declaring purpose and invoking solidarity if he is to begin to repair national division.
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1/17/2020
Restoring Civil Society by Executive Order?: An Inaugural Reverie
by John L. Godwin
Joe Biden should defend the First Amendment right to peaceable assembly by a temporary emergency order criminalizing the carrying of firearms at public protest events and make clear that the threat of force is not part of the democratic process.
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SOURCE: Time
1/19/19
The Striking Contradictions of Richard Nixon's Inauguration 50 Years Ago, as Observed by Hunter S. Thompson
It had been a year of assassinations and police riots and defeats that had led, for Hunter Thompson, to the most unthinkable outcome of all: Richard Nixon’s victory march to the White House lawn.
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4-30-17
Jefferson Vs. Trump: How Their Two Inaugurations Differed
by John Boles
Both represented change. Both came to power after a nasty election. But Trump chose to be divisive.
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2-5-17
Why Indiana Is Feeling Plucky Again!
by Jeff Tenuth
With Pence’s ascension, it’s back where the action is – and that’s where it was for a long long time.
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1-25-17
What Was Missing from Trump’s Inaugural Address?
by John Fea
A sense of history.
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1-22-17
What Historians Are Saying About Donald Trump's Inauguration
On Twitter.
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1-20-17
Dear Democrats: Obstruct Now, March Later
by Fedja Buric
That’s the lesson from history.
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SOURCE: New York Magazine
1-19-17
Trump’s Washington Wedding
by Jill Lepore
An American Inauguration is like a wedding: the President is the groom, the people his bride. Donald Trump is about to pledge his troth. It didn’t always work this way, and, really, it shouldn’t. Washington isn’t Vegas.
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SOURCE: Youtube
1-19-17 (accessed)
Video of the Week: President Nixon's 1969 Inaugural Address
In which the president calls on Americans to dream the American Dream and unite.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
1-13-17
The controversy behind the painting that will hang at Trump’s inaugural luncheon
George Caleb Bingham’s “The Verdict of the People” from 1855, which historians say depicts public reaction to a likely proslavery candidate’s election victory, was chosen as the painting that will be displayed behind the president’s table at the inaugural luncheon.
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SOURCE: Boston Globe
1-18-17
A nation of dissent: The most famous inaugural protests in U.S. history
Americans have protested incoming presidents throughout history, starting in the 19th century.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
1-17-17
How Trump's Inauguration Compares to Inaugurations Past
Thousands of people are expected to descend on the nation’s capital on Friday, in what is shaping up to be the least benign presidential inaugural ceremony in American history.
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SOURCE: US News and World Report
12-17-08
Presidential Inauguration History: From Grand to Fatal to Downright Awkward
Many presidents found that their predecessors could be less than gracious during the ceremonies.
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1-15-17
What Would MLK Make of Donald Trump?
by Daniel Thomas Fleming
In every imaginable comparison they are polar opposites.
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