{"id":106257,"date":"2025-10-08T12:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/?post_type=event&#038;p=106257"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:36:39","slug":"history-behind-the-headlines-government-shutdowns-and-the-federal-budget","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/event\/history-behind-the-headlines-government-shutdowns-and-the-federal-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"History Behind the Headlines: Government Shutdowns and the Federal Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Threats of a US government shutdown have become a staple of the federal budget process during the past few decades. In this hour-long History Behind the Headlines webinar, leading scholars discussed the history of federal appropriations, why shutdowns have become so common, and their broader historical implications.<\/p>\n<p>Moderated by <strong>Kathryn Cramer Brownell (Purdue Univ.)<\/strong>, this event featured <strong>Lily Geismer (Claremont McKenna Coll.)<\/strong>,<strong> John Lawrence (Univ. of California Washington Center)<\/strong>, and<strong> Jeremi Suri (Univ. of Texas at Austin)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"History Behind the Headlines: Government Shutdowns and the Federal Budget\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5rhRzPSIvcY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threats of a US government shutdown have become a staple of the federal budget process during the past few decades.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11287,"template":"","aha-topic":[],"month":[561],"event-type":[100,101],"year":[875],"class_list":{"0":"post-106257","1":"event","2":"type-event","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","5":"hentry","6":"month-october","7":"event-type-aha-online","8":"event-type-history-behind-the-headlines","9":"year-875","13":"year-2025","14":"has-featured-image"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/106257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/106257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106491,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/106257\/revisions\/106491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aha-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aha-topic?post=106257"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=106257"},{"taxonomy":"event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-type?post=106257"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=106257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}