{"id":6702,"date":"2016-02-12T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6702"},"modified":"2019-01-10T21:34:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T21:34:41","slug":"michael-lansing-interviewed-by-pioneer-public-television-publishes-minnpost-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/12\/michael-lansing-interviewed-by-pioneer-public-television-publishes-minnpost-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Lansing interviewed by Pioneer Public Television, publishes MinnPost article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Pioneer-Public-Television-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6703\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Pioneer-Public-Television-logo-300x98.png\" alt=\"Pioneer Public Television - logo\" width=\"251\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Pioneer-Public-Television-logo-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Pioneer-Public-Television-logo.png 646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>Pioneer Public Television (PPT) recently included an interview with <strong>Michael Lansing<\/strong>, associate professor of history at Augsburg College and author of <em>Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics<\/em>, in an episode of <em>Compass<\/em>, a program that focuses on public policy and other issue of importance to PPT&#8217;s community.<\/p>\n<p>Lansing&#8217;s book details the history of the Nonpartisan League, a political movement active in North Dakota, neighboring states, and some Canadian provinces in the early 1900s. The interview is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneer.org\/compass.html\">available online<\/a> on the PPT website.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3918\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost.jpeg\" alt=\"MinnPost - logo\" width=\"137\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost-115x115.jpeg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/><\/a>Lansing wrote an article for MinnPost that examines the trend of comparing the current sociopolitical climate with the &#8220;Gilded Age&#8221; of the late 19th century. He argues that the results of recent presidential primaries in New Hampshire, which overwhelmingly rejected candidates viewed as having ties to the political establishment, reflect an important change in voter attitudes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;American voters now believe they are living in a second Gilded Age,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;This shift has the potential to transform our nation\u2019s politics.&#8221; He adds that regardless of the final outcomes of the nomination processes, this change is a noteworthy signifier of Americans&#8217; rejection of the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/compass-historic-collaborative-agrarian-revolt\/\">History Collaborative &amp; Agrarian Revolt<\/a> on the Pioneer Public Television site.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/community-voices\/2016\/02\/second-gilded-age-last\">A second Gilded Age at last?<\/a> on the MinnPost site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneer Public Television (PPT) recently included an interview with Michael Lansing, associate professor of history at Augsburg College and author of Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics, in an episode of Compass, a program that focuses on public policy and other issue of importance to PPT&#8217;s community. Lansing&#8217;s book details the history &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[1276,1903,1967,3793,2312,2342],"class_list":["post-6702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-history","tag-michael-lansing","tag-minnpost","tag-pioneer-public-television","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8880,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions\/8880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}