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Marc Horger

Marc Horger lectures on American history and the history of sport and recreation at Ohio State University. He specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is also a close and sometimes bemused student of American politics. He has been published in New England Quarterly and the Journal of Sport History.

 

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Olympic Broadcasting Services covering the men's 10 kilometre marathon swim at the 2012 Olympic Games.
The Big Game on the Small Screen: The Televised Transformation of Sport
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier
Rumble in the Jungle: The 1974 Foreman/Ali Heavyweight Title Fight
Harper's Weekly illustration
Top Ten Contested Political Conventions
Ali, left, walking through the streets of Kinshasa in 1974.
The Rumble in the Jungle
A 2017 protest march in San Francisco calling for President Trump’s impeachment.
American Presidential Scandals
A 2018 Anti-War rally in Chicago.
Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism
Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling
The Long View of Sports Protests
Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
Ten Protests in Sports History
Voting booths
America's Post-Election Political Landscape
Tilden illustration - a hand on another hand that is on a gun on a table with papers
Top Ten Origins: Other “Unprecedented” Elections in American History
Cartoon from Puck: The Bosses of the Senate
Buying American Elections?
Early OSU football game
4th and Goal? The Past of the American University and the Future of the NCAA
Team photo of a soccer team
The Politics of International Sport
The GOP elephant and the Democratic Party's donkey.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System
Cover of Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith.
Wagging the Dog
Fox News commentator and Tea Party favorite Glenn Beck addresses supporters at his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 2010.
American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

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