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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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Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and the Civil War
Donald Trump, who apparently thinks a lot of Andrew Jackson, recently opined that Old Hickory could have prevented the Civil War from happening. I would love to interview Mr. Trump about that, because I would be very interested in testing just … Continue reading
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