“New Ways of Talking about Political History”

Hosted by Joseph Crespino

Political history often focuses on presidents, leaders, and other political figures. One thing historians do is take the first draft of history that reporters write and write the second draft, looking at the broader forces and contexts at play while incorporating biography and its storytelling strengths to make it easier to teach this history to students. In this virtual lecture, Joseph Crespino (an expert in the political and cultural history of the twentieth century United States from Emory University) will discuss new ways of looking at political history and its contexts, using examples from the biographical vignettes of Strom Thurmond, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and other interesting historical figures.

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