Tag: American history

As we experience Donald Trump’s twenty-first-century version of White nationalism, how we dealt with that difficult past should help us remember that we lived through terrible times by confronting them and that we can do so again.

History’s actual course remains exceedingly difficult to decipher.

1776 and 1860: A key Trump adviser likened the country’s moment to those fractious periods in American history.

Either we learn from failures (threats, disruptions, chaos, illegality) or we invite being buried by them.

History does not repeat, but in this case it emphatically rhymes. With Trumpist war cries for his New Nazism, we cannot avoid the obvious parallels.

History depicts the battle between “bad myths” that divide, even destroy, vs the “good myths” that speak to the grandeur of the American experiment.

Can the America of today be considered one of the greatest nations in the world?

The majority of Americans at that time, and even now, never dared to question what our government and embedded media shoveled at them.

Truth to tell, the word historic does get tossed around rather loosely these days.

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Today, Americans are forgetting.