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(Right here is the place to enter your email address, rather than at the top of the page.)- Benjamin F. Alexander teaches American History and Government at the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn, and holds a PhD in History from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. He is the author of The New Deal's Forest Army: How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked (JHU Press, 2018) and Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age (JHU Press, 2015), both of which can be ordered directly from the Hopkins Press website at a 30% discount with the code HTWN. He resides in Bloomfield, NJ, just outside of New York City.
bfalexander@citytech.cuny.edu
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Is Everything Old New Again? Only Up to a Point
In recent times, when explaining aspects of the American political system to students, I’ve taken to tossing in the modifying tagline “when things are normal, unlike now.” Indeed, everything from the primary campaign of Donald Trump through his clinching of … Continue reading
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