MIKE PURDY is a presidential historian and the author of Presidential Friendships: How They Changed History, as well as 101 Presidential Insults: What They Really Thought About Each Other - and What It Means to Us. He is the founder of PresidentialHistory.com that includes his award-winning presidential history blog. Mike is a frequent commentator on presidential history and politics for national and international media.
Website: PresidentialHistory.com includes an award-winning presidential history blog (PR Newswire for Journalists, Beyond Bylines selected it as their top "Presidential Blogs We Love" in February 2018). In addition to resources about presidential sites, books, and various links, his website includes a popular Presidential History News video series. These short and fun videos recreate and imagine what it would look like if a modern television news anchor reported on key events in presidential history.
Media commentator: Mike has been interviewed by and quoted in a variety of national and international media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Today.com, Reuters, Bloomberg BNA, The Huffington Post, and BBC. He is a regular opinion contributor to TheHill.com. He is also the author of the Foreword to The Story of John Quincy Adams 250 Years Later by Edward Cody Huddleston.
Professional affiliations: Mike is a member of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association, and participated in the Siena College Research Institute's 2018 U.S. Presidents Study, ranking presidential performance.
Education: He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in business (University of Puget Sound), and a Master of Divinity degree (Fuller Theological Seminary).
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