Over the past few days, we asked our twitter followers the question “In the future, what might history grad students writing about the 2016 election choose as their dissertation title?” Here are some of our favorite responses.
@The_OAH A Deplorable Lesson: Teaching a NC-17 election in a PG13 Classroom.
— Mr. Stewart (@MrStewart76) November 8, 2016
@JournAmHist @TheAmHistorian “From the Audacity of Hope 2 the Cowardice of Fear.””The (Polling) System is Rigged:How the Polls Got It Wrong”
— Vanessa Corcoran (@VRCinDC) November 10, 2016
@JournAmHist Poll Job: How the Experts were Wrong
— Bradley J. Brewer (@braddiekins) November 11, 2016
@JournAmHist Pride and Prejudice: How Hubris and Indifference Lost the Democrats the Election
— Selena Moon (@SelenaMMoon) November 11, 2016
@JournAmHist From Tet to Trum: The death of trust and confidence in America’s political institutions
— Mitch Robertson (@mitch_robertson) November 10, 2016
@JournAmHist Entertaining Satan: The GOP in the Age of Trump
— Mark Boonshoft (@markdboonie) November 8, 2016
@JournAmHist Grabbing It By Process: Corruption Claims in US Presidential Elections, 1800-2016
— Blake M. Lindsey (@blindseytele03) November 8, 2016
@JournAmHist It Must Be Nice: Media and Presidential Elections, 2008-2016
— Blake M. Lindsey (@blindseytele03) November 8, 2016
@The_OAH Mapping the Meme Network: A Demographic, Geographic and Graphical Comparison of Tweets and Retweets in 2016 Presidential Election
— UW-La Crosse History (@UWLHistory) November 8, 2016
@The_OAH Look Back in Anger: Reactionary and Identity Politics in the 2016 Presidential Election
— SIU Press (@siupress) November 8, 2016
@The_OAH @JournAmHist “weaving the basket for deplorables: building uncivil coalitions in 2016 presidential politics”
— Ashley Bowen-Murphy (@BowenMurphy) November 8, 2016
@The_OAH #JustVote: Hashtags, Hot Mics, and Memes in America’s Most Social Election
— Laura Kate Fortner (@LauraKateF) November 8, 2016
@The_OAH #NastyWomen: Gender, Rhetoric, and Digital Media in the 2016 Election
— Heather Bennett (@heatherlynnsg) November 8, 2016
@The_OAH Like No Election Ever: Tracing the meaning of the historical and ahistorical metaphors of the 2016 campaign season.
— Mr. Stewart (@MrStewart76) November 8, 2016
@The_OAH “Götterdämerung: The Twilight of the Grand Old Party, 2012-2028”
— Matthew Kruer (@KruerMatthew) November 8, 2016
@The_OAH Echo Chambers: How Social Media Influenced Popular Perceptions and Reinforced Individual’s Beliefs in the 2016 Election
— Cate LiaBraaten (@cliabraaten) November 8, 2016
@The_OAH “P*ssy Grabbed: Donald Trump, the Failure of Third Wave Feminism, and America Taken by Surprise”
— Julia M Gossard (@jmgossard) November 12, 2016
@The_OAH Trumpian Democracy: The Unraveling of the American Dream
— Lori Bogle (@lbogle1) November 12, 2016
@The_OAH Whitelash “Whitelash” Trumps Globalization
— Justin McDearmont (@coloneldebater) November 12, 2016
@The_OAH “Strange Love: How Trump Supporters Fell for a Sales Pitch and Learned to Love the Donald.”
— Connor Stangler (@ConnorStangler) November 9, 2016
@The_OAH “The Art of the Steal: Donald Trump and the Duping of the American Electorate”
— Josh Green (@jgreenWHAP) November 10, 2016
