All Posts Tagged With: "Barack Obama"
Barry Alfonso on the evolution of political oratory
With the inaugural address of the next president about to be delivered, I can’t help but reflect upon political oratory in general and the old fashioned kind in particular. I don’t mean the sort of folksy speeches Ronald Reagan used to give or even the reassuring talks Franklin D. Roosevelt soothed Depression-era America with. I [...]
29Dec2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
In the News: Indictment of Rod Blagojevich
The indictment of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges has dominated the news the past two weeks. Blagojevich is charged with attempting to sell the Senate seat of president-elect Barack Obama. At a news conference on December 9, Patrick Fitzgerald, United States attorney general for the Northern District of Illinois, announced the arrest of [...]
19Dec2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Joan E. Cashin on Obama and Lincoln
This year is rich with historical milestones. The U.S. has elected its first African American president, which is significant, to say the least. Next year we observe the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth in Kentucky in 1809, and this year marks the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas debates during the Illinois Senate race.
President-elect [...]
Paul Finkelman on the election of Barack Obama
[Portions of this blog appeared on Huffington Post and the African American Studies Center of Oxford University Press and are published here with permission of OUP.]
Very few presidential elections change America. The elections of 1800, 1828, 1860, and 1932 come to mind as the most obvious examples of elections that truly transformed the nation. They [...]
In the News: Barack Obama's victory speech
November 4, 2008
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around [...]
In the News: John McCain's concession speech
November 4, 2008
My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Sen. Barack Obama—to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.
In a contest as [...]
Around the history blogosphere: October 17
Here are some recent posts related to primary sources from other sites:
The A. Lincoln blog on Barack Obama’s Dreams of My Father, Abraham Lincoln’s writings, and the expectations of a president
The American Presidents Blog on a letter written by William McKinley to his wife about dinner with President Rutherford B. Hayes
History Is Elementary on quotations [...]
In the News: Presidential debates
Last night in New York, Barack Obama and John McCain participated in the third and final presidential debate of this 2008 election. The focus was on domestic issues, including the economy. The debate transcript can be seen here, at the Web site of the Commission on Presidential Debates, the organization that conducts the debates. For [...]
16Oct2008 | mdblogger | 7 comments | Continued
Karen Linkletter on political convention speeches
It is striking how many of the speeches at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions used language to appeal to “average working folks.” Both of the presidential candidates, as well as their vice presidential nominees, positioned themselves as typical, everyday Americans (when this is, of course, not the case for any of them).
I was [...]
In the News: Obama, JFK, and Reagan in Berlin
Today’s speech by Senator Barack Obama in Berlin, Germany, has garnered massive media attention, in part because it recalls iconic speeches by John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. (Both Kennedy and Reagan, it should be noted, were sitting presidents when they delivered their addresses.) According to the German News Agency DPA, approximately 200,000 people attended [...]
24Jul2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued