Huntington Professor of History at Boston University
Joined July 2012
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As experts begin to rank Trump's presidency, I unearth the strange history of presidential rankings for the WaPo"s Made By History. With thanks to @KathrynBrownell and @brianros1 for expert editing.
Add States? Double the Court? Expand the House? My Latest for the WAPO's "Made By History" on the historical case for Constitutional Hardball. With thx for expert editing by @KathrynBrownell and @car1ygoodman
"In the end, doubling the Supreme Court, adding multiple states and enlarging the House might not advantage the Democratic Party, but they would advance the cause of American democracy." — @bjschulm
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Congrats to my friend, colleague, and @HistoryBU grad @SethBlumenthal --winner of BU's Metcalf Award for outstanding teaching. Well deserved! bu.edu/articles/2020/a-2020-…
Today's not the first time a NY Governor complained about an unfair federal balance of payments. This piece ran in 2017, during the debate over Trump's tax law, but it tries to shed some historical light on this longstanding struggle. washingtonpost.com/news/made…
As the 2020 campaign heats up (finally) with Iowa and NH, I look back at how the tangled US presidential system took shape. My latest for the WaPo's Made By History feature
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Thanks to @KathrynBrownell and @brianros1 for their expert editing and special thanks to the students in HI 339 at BU, whose questions inspired this piece!
From @BJSchulm: How the biggest yuppie of the 1980s became the white working class’s president wapo.st/37j4FF9
Join Us for "Making the American City," the 12th Annual Grad Student US History Conference at BU, March20-21, 2020. Robert Self of Brown University will keynote. It's a great event! Find the Info and CFB at sites.bu.edu/aphi/grad-confe…
Thanks to @KathrynBrownell, @pastpunditry and @brianros1 for their help with this piece and thanks to @profdaly and @matt_pressman for their inspiration!
Great piece by the always insightful @bjschulm on how the new movie The Front Runner ignores the changes in media & politics launched years before Gary Hart’s failed presidential bid in 1988 (in part by Hart himself) washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
Welcome to Opposite World. Next up...Ag Secretary goes on hunger strike; Fed Communications chair takes vow of silence; Disease Control Chief refuses to wash hands......
I accept @corsent 's nomination to take the @FilmStruck challenge to name four films that define me.
Great piece by Blanchard Prize winner and @HistoryBU PhD Matt Pressman on developing ideas for books. xitter.cf/matt_pressman/status/9…
shared some thoughts on coming up with book/dissertation ideas for @AJHAsocial. It's been a while since I've written in the first person! ajha.wildapricot.org/Intelli…
Superb new piece by @matt_pressman on the history of government-media relations underlying the Time Warner-ATT merger controversy xitter.cf/matt_pressman/status/9…
Justice Dept is shattering precedent by block Time Warner-AT&T merger. But it's not such a great precedent to being with. My first piece for @washingtonpost @madebyhistory washingtonpost.com/news/made…
Rolling Stone Turns 50--a One-Time Fan (and Wannabe Writer) Turned Historian (Me) Looks Back. My latest.
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See the terrific analysis of fiscal federalism by @JoshuaTMcCabe xitter.cf/joshuatmccabe/status/9…
No doubt. I've tried to reframe it in terms of tax equity/fiscal capacity for skeptics on the right. See: nationalaffairs.com/publicat…
What lies behind current debate over the SALT deduction? See my latest for Made By History.
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Terrific piece by @margaretomara giving essential context to Amazon location sweepstakes
Winning the Amazon sweepstakes will give one city a big boost — if it happens the right way wapo.st/2wEF85U?tid=ss_tw-am…
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Must read: cities should want to win the Amazon sweepstakes. But to benefit, they'll need to win the right way washingtonpost.com/news/made…
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Americans always answer the call. OneAmericaAppeal.org
Could the cure for what ails our politics be more bureaucracy? Seriously! My latest for Made By History
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