Category Archives: Politics

Lincoln

Posted on November 25, 2012 by LaDale Winling

My wife and I went out on Thursday for just the third time since our son’s birth, this time to see Lincoln. Several historians chimed in with their opinions and evaluations at film’s release. Kate Masur, a historian of slavery … Continue reading →

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Virginia Senators

Posted on November 6, 2012 by LaDale Winling

While Virginia had very Democratic Senators in the first part of the century, from the election of Harry Byrd, the state’s Senate Delegation became much more conservative, though for most of the 20th century the seats remained Democratic. Only recently, … Continue reading →

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Virginia 9th Congressional District

Posted on November 5, 2012 by LaDale Winling

Working with some DW-NOMINATE data, I plotted the ideological rank of the Congressional Representative for VA-9, where Blacksburg and Virginia Tech are. We can see that the current representative, Morgan Griffith, is the most conservative representative of the district since … Continue reading →

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Berkeley in the 60s

Posted on October 27, 2012 by LaDale Winling

Aaron Bady and Mike Konczal have a piece up at Dissent on the reuse of the Reagan playbook at the University of California, linking the 1960s to the 2000s. The last few years that point has been broadly made several … Continue reading →

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The Philadelphia Story

Posted on July 8, 2011 by LaDale Winling

One of my friends and colleagues, Andrew Highsmith, has a review essay out in the newest issue of the Journal of Urban History. In it, he takes up several recent works on postwar American cities including Tombstone and Jerome, AZ; … Continue reading →

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University of Chicago Sit-In, 1962

Posted on April 13, 2010 by LaDale Winling

I thought it worth re-visiting this find from a while back at the request of Angus Johnston. In my dissertation, “Building the Ivory Tower: Campus Planning, University Development, and the Politics of Urban Space,” I research the development of American … Continue reading →

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Another Robert Caro Interview

Posted on October 25, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Longer (an hour), over some similar material, but really great.

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Robert Caro on Lyndon Johnson

Posted on October 25, 2009 by LaDale Winling

A great biographer but even more, a great voice. I loved him in the PBS documentary New York. Worth a view.

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Psyched

Posted on February 13, 2009 by LaDale Winling

I’m psyched not just as a politically-minded person, but as a historian, that Judd Gregg has withdrawn from consideration from the Commerce position. The United States Decennial Census is one of the most important tools we have for understanding the … Continue reading →

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The End of Sprawl

Posted on February 10, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Rallying for stimulus, Obama spoke in Fort Myers today, liveblogged by…the White House. [Obama] Makes a case for high-speed rail and mass tranit — says the days of sprawl are over. “Everyone recognizes that’s not a good way to design … Continue reading →

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