The 2024 Presidential Election in Historical Perspective, with Julian Zelizer

Florida Atlantic University’s Department of History in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters presents “The 2024 Presidential Election in Historical Perspective” on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 5 p.m.in the University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. The lecture will be presented by Julian E. Zelizer, Ph.D., Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and contributor to NPR’s “Here and Now” and CNN. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at Florida Atlantic University | Student Union Ticketing - The 2024 Election in Historical Perspective (universitytickets.com) or by calling 561-297-6124.  FAU students, faculty, staff and alumni tickets are free with ID.

Zelizer will analyze the unprecedented 2024 election and explain its antecedents. Zelizer, with Boca Raton roots, is a prolific author on the history of campaigns, social movements and partisanship.

Two of Zelizer’s books will be for sale at the event with a book signing to follow the lecture. “Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue,” co-authored with Karen J. Greenberg, includes essays by the nation’s top political scientists, historians and legal scholars who examine how the lack of stability and integrity of the electoral process has become a threat to national security. Through historical and social scientific analysis, contributors outline how these problems have emerged and propose concrete solutions to move us into a period of greater stability.

The second book, “Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About our Past,” co-authored with Kevin Kruse, is a collection of essays by several historians that push back against misinformation about the past. The contributors challenge narratives such as the New Deal and Great Society were failures, immigrants have always been hostile invaders, and feminists are anti-family warriors. The research replaces myths with research and facts.

For more information about the lecture, visit www.fau.edu/osullivan.