The Tower Bridge stands as a landmark for Sacramento, but it also represents our nation’s resolve to overcome the Great Depression. This yellow bridge that spans the Sacramento River was among the ...
Why the New Deal Matters By Eric Rauchway, distinguished professor of history Yale University Press (April 6, 2021) Arguably the greatest peaceable expression of common purpose in U.S. history, the ...
In a crisis, leaders step up—and not always in the expected ways. As the U.S. scrambles to contain the novel coronavirus, President Donald Trump has been heavily criticized for his lack of preparation ...
For all their successes, American universities “have the same problem now as in the 19th century,” writes Eric Rauchway, a professor of history at the University of California at Davis. The problem, ...
WHEN: Dropping before Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 FIND IT HERE. Also, stay tuned for the next edition of UC Davis’ newest podcast, The Backdrop, this month featuring UC Davis historian Eric Rauchway ...
The brilliance of historians such as the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. is that they were able to use the past to help explain contemporary politics, says Eric Rauchway, a professor of history at the ...
In 2014, an up-and-coming writer named Ta-Nehisi Coates made a landmark case for reparations in The Atlantic, which took aim at, among other targets, one of the most revered figures in the liberal ...
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Wednesday's violence at the Capitol is being called the worst assault on American democracy in recent history. The Presidential election of 1876 is marked as one of the most ...
Using a formal but accessible style, Rauchway (The Money Makers) explores the months between Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s electoral victory over President Herbert Hoover and his inauguration in this ...
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act on Aug. 14, 1935. From left to right, Robert Lee Doughton, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Edwin E. Witte, Director of ...
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