Lothrop Stoddard

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

A new book traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past.

Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.

Misunderstood historical imagery at the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

Reactionary leaders are invoking communism as a way of attacking the left, says author and activist Richard Seymour.

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?

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it.

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

The designers of the quota system at least tried to hide their racism.

By ending DACA, President Trump seems to be trying to resurrect a national immigration policy defined by racial engineering.

Rigid racial codes in the early 20th century gained the admiration not only of many American elites, but also of Nazi Germany.

When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”.

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.