An Election for the Ages: Historians Break Down 2024
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To many Americans, the 2024 election has felt unprecedented, even before summer 2024 saw a sudden overhaul of the Democratic ticket and an attempted assassination, all in the span of a short month. As the first presidential election since the shocking events of January 6, 2020, and with campaign rhetoric that has done little to diffuse its fractious legacy, many are looking to the past for guidance. In this timely conversation, historians give their perspective on our current political moment and speak to the experience of Americans before us who also witnessed the tumultuous convergence of politics, violence, and hope for change.
Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian for the New-York Historical Society, is a frequent contributor on presidential history for CNN, MSNBC, and CBS and the author of numerous books, most recently including Silent Spring Revolution. Beverly Gage is professor of 20th-century American history at Yale, a scholar trustee of the New-York Historical Society, and the author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University, a frequent media contributor, and a prizewinning author of multiple books, including his most recent, Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. Louise Mirrer (moderator) is president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society.
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Images: Douglas Brinkley by Jeremy Freeman-CNN; Beverly Gage by Kathleen Cei; Eddie S. Glaude Jr. by Sameer A. Khan; Louise Mirrer by Buck Ennis, Crain's New York Business
