Nancy Isenberg

Nancy Isenberg is the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University and coauthor with Andrew Burstein of Madison and Jefferson.  Her latest book is White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.

George Washington; Andrew Johnson; Donald Trump
Donald Trump's unpardonable endgame: Does the president have unlimited power to pardon anyone? Nancy Isenberg
Oprah Winfrey; Donald Trump
Celebrity monomania: Maybe Trump and Oprah aren't as different as we think Nancy Isenberg
Dwight D. Eisenhower; Donald Trump
Eisenhower, Trump and hubris: We've had misguided presidents, but not like this Nancy Isenberg
Thomas Jefferson; Donald Trump; Teddy Roosevelt
How will history view the Trump era? With contempt and amazement, for starters Nancy Isenberg
Donald Trump; Reinhold Niebuhr
A vote for moral technology: Updating Reinhold Niebuhr to the age of Donald Trump Nancy Isenberg
Written Out of History by Mike Lee
Mike Lee’s bad history: Utah senator's book is an ignorant hodgepodge concocted to justify the modern GOP Nancy Isenberg
Listening to John Adams: The true conception of liberty is far larger than mean-spirited conservative ideology Nancy Isenberg
American history: Fake news that never goes away — and empowered the Trumpian insurrection Nancy Isenberg
John Adams; Donald Trump; Paris Hilton
Can we redeem "civic virtue" in the age of Donald Trump? John Adams might have understood what just happened Nancy Isenberg
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
The godfather vs. the grandmother: How the 2016 election became a battle of "character" over substance Nancy Isenberg
Donald Trump
“Greater Than We Currently Are,” not “Great Again”: Trump is perversely nostalgic when we should be looking forward Nancy Isenberg
Bill Maher, Donald Trump, Jon Stewart
We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully Nancy Isenberg
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren's big win: The new, much-needed rule that could rein in Wall Street slime Nancy Isenberg
Stop clinging to the Founding Fathers: The Andrew Jackson/Hamilton/Tubman debate is really about honest history Nancy Isenberg
Ted Cruz, Donald Trump
Republicans really fall for this nonsense: The GOP is the party of stupid, but its voters are the deluded ones Nancy Isenberg