Political Uses of the Past Project

Collecting and checking the political uses of the past. By @AllenJayM

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Fact-checking can’t do much when people’s “dueling facts” are driven by values instead of knowledge » Nieman Journalism Lab https://t.co/0ZEnajQWY9

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Senator Chuck Grassley: "The New Deal in the 1930s didn't work. It didn't get us out of the Great Depression."

@AllenJayM explains what historians said in response.

https://t.co/7EnVEQDTnN

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Well, this blew up even before I had a chance to tweet it out. Thanks to all the historians who responded. For a brief moment today, Twitter was talking all about the New Deal. #historymatters https://t.co/eZbkk9IYzl

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@rauchway Thank you for the response and the tweets! Even though the original statement was incredibly blinkered, I learned a few things from the responses and the effects of the New Deal remains a good conversation to have...

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Also: "this is the first time that we will have a great power competitor that is not Caucasian."

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Kiron Skinner, dir. of policy planning at the State Dept and a Harvard-educated historian on China: “This is a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology, and the United States hasn’t had that before." https://t.co/W8qNa5IKng

[Michael Hattem @MichaelHattem]

I’m going to get a lot of use out of this (including right now in my memory of the Revolution course), but especially as the database grows backward in time.

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Thanks for reading! Hope you can put it to use.

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How do politicians use history for their political agenda?

Search, sort, and browse a growing collection of political uses of the past by elected and appointed officials created by @AllenJayM.

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“To describe this man as an American hero requires ignoring the immense suffering for which he was personally responsible, both on and off the battlefield.” https://t.co/6c20YSZ0Oj

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“My job these days is looking for silver linings” https://t.co/yHTFxQBudF

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Showing the data! Search, sort, and browse a growing list of over 700 political uses of the past by your elected officials. #twitterstorians #historymatters https://t.co/9jPSYWBOD3

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The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation by @kerileighmerrit https://t.co/OxAfH5K9zh via @SmithsonianMag

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No, Donald Trump is not the first president with low approval amid a good economy https://t.co/OiZTgdGtDa via @PolitiFact

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How did Adam Smith become such a popular icon in the first place? And why did the “invisible hand” become such a powerful political catchphrase? https://t.co/LCZw67LM3M

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“In fact, the distortion of Nazi history in particular has been a key feature of the populist brand” https://t.co/9gzUD2cGDC

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Dick Durbin made a similar point on the Senate Floor not long ago: "Black infants in America are twice as likely to die as White infants. That racial disparity is greater today than it was in the year 1850."
https://t.co/WsSWy93K2V

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One person close to the White House: “His supporters don't care and if anything they enjoy the fact that the liberal snobs are upset” that he doesn’t know much history. https://t.co/TSQazWHHyk

[Savo Heleta @Savo_Heleta]

I wrote about the importance of sharing academic #research with the public in @TC_Africa in March 2016. The article has been read almost 200,000 times. Over the past few days, it again went viral ☺️🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/B6KleT3sqo #academia #scicomm