Gil Troy
Gil Troy is a professor of history at McGill University. His latest book — his tenth — is The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s .
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Oct 18, 2016
In Praise of Abandoning Your Party
by Gil Troy
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Oct 14, 2016
Know-Nothing Bigot Who Won Big
by Gil Troy
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Sep 29, 2016
The Man Who Went Full Trump for FDR
by Gil Troy
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Sep 18, 2016
The Man Who Could Make Your Kids Less Ignorant
by Gil Troy
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Sep 13, 2016
When America Rejected its Homegrown 'Joe McNazi'
by Gil Troy
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Aug 21, 2016
Jonathan Daniels: The Forgotten Civil Rights Preacher Killed by a Cop in Alabama
by Gil Troy
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Aug 15, 2016
How General Motors Saved Rosa Parks
by Gil Troy
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Jul 25, 2016
How Originality Vanished From Political Speeches
by Gil Troy
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Jul 25, 2016
U.S. Political Conventions Have Been Weird From The Start
by Gil Troy
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Jul 19, 2016
When Eisenhower Took on Big Oil
by Gil Troy
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Jul 4, 2016
When Elie Wiesel Confronted Ronald Reagan
by Gil Troy
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Jul 4, 2016
Inside the Nazi Camp on Long Island
by Gil Troy
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Jun 29, 2016
The Racist Origins of the SAT
by Gil Troy
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Jun 19, 2016
How a Sexist Prank Elected America’s First Female Mayor
by Gil Troy
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Jun 7, 2016
Westway, New York's Great Highway That Never Was
by Gil Troy
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Jun 7, 2016
How an Outsider President Killed a Party
by Gil Troy
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May 22, 2016
The Secrets of the Woman in Hitler’s Bathtub
by Gil Troy
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Mar 20, 2016
The NY Rens Were The ‘Greatest Basketball Team You Have Never Heard Of’
by Gil Troy
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Mar 9, 2016
The German Jew Who Became an Ottoman Pasha
by Gil Troy
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Mar 9, 2016
Filming Rodney King’s Beating Ruined His Life
by Gil Troy
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