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    • Douglas Brinkley
      CNN Presidential Historian

      Douglas Brinkley is CNN's Presidential Historian, a professor of history at Rice University and author of many books.


    • Trump talks to reporters while hosting Republican Congressional leaders and members of his cabinet in the Oval Office at the White House July 20, 2020 in Washington, DC.

      Historian on Trump's legacy: He's an 'asterisk president'

      CNN's presidential historian Douglas Brinkley talks about what President Donald Trump's legacy will be once he leaves office, and how the riots at the US Capitol have affected that legacy.
    • Historian on pardons: Trump emptying jails of his corrupt cronies

      CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley and legal analyst Elliot Williams react to President Donald Trump's string of controversial pardons.
    • US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 8, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

      'What an utterly terrible idea': Historian reacts to Trump

      Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian and professor, reacts to President Donald Trump saying he will deliver his convention speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination from either the site of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania or the White House in Washington, DC.
    • Wolf Blitzer 08012020

      Wolf Blitzer blasts 'ridiculous' RNC decision

      CNN's Wolf Blitzer discusses news that the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, will be closed to the press with presidential historian Douglas Brinkley and global affairs analyst Susan Glasser.
    • US President Donald Trump speaks as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2020 en route to Texas.

      Sorry, Donald Trump: The 2020 presidential election is on

    • Historian: Trump is going to be a George Wallace candidate

      CNN's Gloria Borger and presidential historian Douglas Brinkley discuss past presidential campaigns that President Donald Trump attempted to emulate during his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.