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Past Present: The First 100 Days, Hawaii, and FGM

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate Trump's first 100 days, the history of Hawaii, and the rise of female genital mutilation in the United States.

Nicole Hemmer

Historians react to Trump’s Civil War comments: ‘That’s entirely wrong in every respect’

"When Donald Trump marvels at the ignorance or incuriosity of the masses, what he’s really doing is expressing his own ignorance and incuriosity," said Miller Center expert Nicole Hemmer. "He’s saying that he’s never asked about the origins of the Civil War.”

Nicole Hemmer

The Anti-Communist History Behind 'Loyalty Day'

Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor in presidential studies at the Miller Center, columnist for Vox.com, and co-host of the podcast Past Present, joins The Takeaway to help place Loyalty Day into a wider historical context.

Nicole Hemmer

Presidential scholar gives Trump's first 100 days mixed review

“No matter how much experience you have in business, in bootstrapping a campaign from nothing, nothing prepares you” for the presidency, Antholis said. “Just this week Trump said, ‘This is harder than I thought it would be,’ and people laughed. But the truth is that was refreshingly honest.”

William Antholis

How Trump could get fired

William Antholis, a political scientist who directs the Miller Center, at the University of Virginia, told me that, thus far, the President that Trump most reminds him of is not Nixon or Clinton but Jimmy Carter, another outsider who vowed to remake Washington.

William Antholis

Trump’s flip-flops and rookie mistakes damage 1st 100 days

“That was his domestic Bay of Pigs,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, referring to the disastrous Cuba invasion that President John F. Kennedy ordered early in his term. “He didn’t know what he was doing, and I don’t think he reckoned on the divisions in his own party.”

Barbara Perry