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Behold America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream"

Sarah Churchwell

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The Second Generation of School Shootings

The fear that overtook us that day in 1988 was unfamiliar to most Americans. Now all too many know how it feels.

by Sarah Churchwell via The Atlantic on May 23, 2023

President Abraham Lincoln, bareheaded at center, giving the Gettysburg Address, Pennsylvania, 1863

The Party of Lincoln Ignores His Warning Against Mobocracy

“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” declared the man who would be America’s sixteenth president.

by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on January 15, 2021

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The Oracle of Our Unease

The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.

by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on September 24, 2020

The Return of American Fascism

How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.

by Sarah Churchwell via New Statesman on September 2, 2020

Youth members of a German-American Bund camp raising a flag, 1934.

American Fascism: It Has Happened Here

Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.

by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on June 22, 2020

American Immigration: A Century of Racism

Discussions of eugenics and other fascistic ideas in American history tend to provoke the defense that they never took root. So why do they keep flowering?

by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on September 12, 2019

Lehman Durr & Co. building in a turn-of-the-century photograph.

‘The Lehman Trilogy’ and Wall Street’s Debt to Slavery

If the play holds up a mirror to our moment, it is by registering slavery in a peripheral glance only to look away.

by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on June 11, 2019

How "America First" Ruined the "American Dream"

Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.

by Sarah Churchwell, Sean Illing via Vox on October 22, 2018

End of the American Dream? The Dark History of 'America First'

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

by Sarah Churchwell via The Guardian on April 21, 2018

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