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And they were shocked by race relations in the South.

The dictator modeled his racial campaign after another conquest of land and people-America's Manifest Destiny.

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.

How it came to be that Puerto Rico came to have a separate but unequal status under American law.

The precedents for Trump’s hyped-up immigration crackdown.

The story of the Bald Knobbers is a terrifying parable about what happens when government fails and violence reigns.

The 52-year-old federal program's successes reflect a complex legacy

Fighting over immigration is central to the American story.

Stacy Fahrenthold compares Donald Trump's Muslim ban to that of Woodrow Wilson back in 1918.

Concerns are raised when the first lady treats her office like a brand.

'The Future Is Female' was popularized in 2015, but the slogan was created 40 years earlier.

The actions of attorneys general in California and other states have their antecedents in the fight against that draconian law.

Trump inherits a branch of government already well equipped to undermine democracy.

Today's debate over sanctuary cities embodies a much longer debate in America over federalism.

The executive order that forced Japanese-Americans from their homes also put immigrants from Italy under surveillance.

In light of President Trump's temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, we take a look at larger immigration trends.

Andrew Jackson was the first president to carry a big stick: he beat a would-be assassin with a cane.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it's important to remember why America welcomes refugees.

From xenophobia to conspiracy theories, the Know Nothing party launched a nativist movement whose effects are still felt today.

The idea that birth on U.S. soil confers citizenship has remained both foundational and contested.

Twenty-one historians explain which moments in history are closest to the Trump election - and what we can learn.

On the origins of racial exclusion in the society that would become the United States of America.

Many compare the rise of "Trumpism" to that of 1930s Fascism. More worthwhile might be an examination of antifascist resistance.

Is he crazy, or crazy like a fox?

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.

Slave states gave us the Electoral College; we should get rid of this vestige of the so-called peculiar institution.

Comparing Trump's America to fascist Germany only fuels elites' antidemocratic fantasies.

Nixon sent Trump the letter in 1987 after he impressed the former first lady on television.

Trump ally Carl Higbie recently cited Japanese internment camps during World War II as a “precedent” for a proposed registry of Muslims in the U.S.

Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.