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Gelringer family, who were later deported to Auschwitz.

The Millions We Failed to Save

The recent documentary "The US and the Holocaust" is a scathing, even bombastic indictment of US immigration policy over the past 160 years.
by Ruth Franklin via New York Review of Books on June 1, 2023
Vaishno Das Bagai (top right), Ramesh Chandra, Abnashi Ram, and other early South Asian immigrants, early 1920s.

United States of America vs. Vaishno Das Bagai

One-hundred years ago, the U.S. government waged a deliberate and organized campaign against South-Asian Americans.
by Erika Lee via South Asian American Digital Archive on February 19, 2023
Ken Burns speaking into a microphone.

Shaming Americans

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.
by Amity Shlaes via City Journal on January 9, 2023

Panic at the Library

The sinister history of fumigating “foreign” books.
by Brian Michael Murphy via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 24, 2022
A woman lights a candle at a memorial for the Buffalo shooting victims, May 2022.
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The Mass Shooting in Buffalo Reflects Deeply Rooted American Ideas

Until we grapple with our history, white supremacist terrorism will keep happening.
by Jesse Curtis via Made By History on May 16, 2022
Drawing of aerial view of vast room of cubicles.

The 20-Year Boondoggle

The Department of Homeland Security was supposed to rally nearly two dozen agencies together in a streamlined approach to protecting the country. So what the hell happened?
by Amanda Chicago Lewis via The Verge on April 21, 2022
An Afghan child being welcomed by a U.S. soldier.
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How the U.S. Has Treated Wartime Refugees

What obligation does the US have toward people who are uprooted by war?
via Retro Report on April 7, 2022
Drawing of Asian Americans on an urban river boardwalk.

Return Flights

The memoirs of Korean adoptees, once full of confession and confusion, are now marked by confidence and rage.
by E. Tammy Kim via New York Review of Books on December 23, 2021
A border sign

Borders Don’t Stop Violence—They Create It

The “border” is not a line on the ground, but a tool that enables violence and surveillance.
by Karl Jacoby, Monica Muñoz Martinez via Public Books on July 7, 2021
Newt Gingrich and applauding Republicans

My Front Row Seat to the Radicalization of the Republican Party

As a political reporter, I've seen four Republican revolutions — Reagan’s, Gingrich’s, the Tea Party’s and Trump’s — each of which took the party farther right.
by Jackie Calmes via Los Angeles Times on June 13, 2021
Four stars with different designs

How America Fractured Into Four Parts

People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible?
by George Packer via The Atlantic on June 8, 2021
Undocumented students in support of DACA
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Biden Will Allow Undocumented Students To Access Pandemic Relief

For decades, policymakers have debated who may access public education and the social safety net.
by Sarah R. Coleman via Made By History on June 1, 2021
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The U.S. Role in the El Mozote Massacre Echoes in Today’s Immigration

An ongoing trial is bringing atrocities to light.
by John B. Washington, Nelson Rauda via Made By History on May 12, 2021
People protesting Trump's immigration policies.
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Thirty Years After Mount Pleasant Erupted, a Push for Better Treatment Persists

American policy continues to create problems for Central American refugees.
by Mike Amezcua via Made By History on May 5, 2021
A collage of Black and Asian people with an upside down American flag in the background

How Racism and White Supremacy Fueled a Black-Asian Divide in America

After a recent surge in anti-Asian attacks, the narrative quickly turned to hostilities between Black and Asian American communities.
by Jerusalem Demsas, Rachel Ramirez via Vox on March 16, 2021
Two men stand in a church doorway.

The Revival of Church Sanctuary

How a long-abandoned practice became a way for undocumented immigrants to seek protection.
by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi via New York Review of Books on November 10, 2020

How Eugenics Shaped Statistics

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.
by Aubrey Clayton via Nautilus on October 28, 2020
Refutees carrying their possessions prepare to board a truck

Finding a Home for the Last Refugees of World War II

What happened to the last million Eastern Europeans in refugee camps in Germany, who refused to return home, or who had no home to return to.
by David Nasaw via Literary Hub on September 15, 2020
Captain Medorem Crawford pictured with his brother, LeRoy, who he employed as his assistant on the Emigrant Escort Service expeditions in 1862-4

A White Man’s Empire

The United Stated Emigrant Escort Service and settler colonialism during the Civil War.
by Stefanie Greenhill via Muster on July 28, 2020

The Republican Choice

How a party spent decades making itself white.
by Clare Malone via FiveThirtyEight on June 24, 2020

America’s Long War on Children and Families

Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces taking children from families that don't match the American ideal.
by Paul M. Renfro via Boston Review on June 22, 2020
Farmworkers in a field.
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During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Immigrant Farmworkers Are Heroes

Our thanks should be recognizing the crucial role they play in our society.
by Eladio Bobadilla via Made By History on March 31, 2020

Militarize, Destabilize, Deport, Repeat

Plan Colombia functioned like an ideological laboratory for forever war in the twenty-first century.
by Stephen D. Cohen via The Baffler on March 5, 2020
Trump with hands folded and eyes closed, as if in prayer.
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Explaining the Bond Between Trump and White Evangelicals

It's all about an agenda — and it's nothing new.
by Matthew Avery Sutton via Made By History on November 21, 2019
Mugshot of Bernard L. Barker.
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Want to Know Why Some Hispanics Support Donald Trump? Ask Richard Nixon.

Nixon created the blend of Republicanism that remains attractive to a segment of Hispanic voters.
by Geraldo Cadava via Made By History on August 9, 2019
Signing of the Declaration of Independence

The Universalist Principles of the Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence advocates for liberty and equality. We would do well to remember those principles today.
by Ilya Somin via Reason on July 4, 2019
U.S. Constitution

The President Who Would Not Be King

Executive power and the Constitution.
by Michael W. McConnell via Stanford Lawyer on June 26, 2019
Immigrant women at Ellis Island.

A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth Century

A century ago, the invocation of science was key to making Americans believe that newcomers were inferior.
by Daniel Okrent, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on May 16, 2019

Racists in Congress Fought Statehood For Hawaii, But Lost That Battle 60 Years Ago

It took more than five decades for advocates of statehood to vanquish white supremacists in Washington.
by Sarah Miller Davenport via The Conversation on March 18, 2019

When the Frontier Becomes the Wall

What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.
by Francisco Cantú via The New Yorker on March 4, 2019
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