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How Christian Is Christian Nationalism?

Many Americans who advocate it have little interest in religion and an aversion to American culture as it currently exists. What really defines the movement?
by Kelefa Sanneh via The New Yorker on March 27, 2023
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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
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The Long History of Anti-CRT Politics

The history of anti-racial justice rhetoric.
by Aziz Rana via LPE Project on November 30, 2021

Dry Times in the Highest State: Colorado’s Prohibition Movement

Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.
by Sam Bock via Erstwhile: A History Blog on February 27, 2019

Voices in Time: The KKK Makes Its Case in Mass Media

The author of "The Second Coming of the KKK" shows an early twentieth-century attempt to go mainstream.
by Linda Gordon via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 12, 2018
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The Second Klan

Linda Gordon’s new book captures how white supremacy has long been part of our political mainstream.
by Kevin M. Kruse via The Nation on December 13, 2017
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The Ugly History of the Pledge of Allegiance — and Why it Matters

Requiring displays of patriotism have often been tied to nativism and bigotry.
by Christopher F. Petrella via Made By History on November 3, 2017

The Artifacts of White Supremacy

Why fiery crosses, white robes, and the American flag were seized upon by the 1920s Klan in its campaign for white nationalism.
by Kelly J. Baker via Religion and Culture Forum on June 14, 2017

The Hispanic Challenge

The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the US into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages.
by Samuel P. Huntington via Foreign Policy on October 28, 2009
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Samuel Huntington’s Great Idea Was Totally Wrong

His “Clash of Civilizations” essay in Foreign Affairs turned 30 this year. It was provocative, influential, manna for the modern right—and completely and utterly not true.
by Jordan Michael Smith via The New Republic on October 19, 2023
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All the President’s Historians

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?
by Daniel N. Gullotta via The Bulwark on April 20, 2021
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The Great White Reunion: On Duncan Bell’s “Dreamworlds of Race”

Could the separation of the Revolutionary War have been patched in the late 19th century? Some powerful men tried...
by Bassam Sidiki via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 26, 2021

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
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How The Culture Wars Destroyed Public Education

The left's Pyrrhic victory in the culture wars.
by Andrew Hartman via Made By History on September 5, 2017

Talking God in the United States

What are Americans really talking about when they talk about religious freedom?
by Rachel Gordan via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 31, 2017

Samuel Huntington, a Prophet for the Trump Era

The writings of the late Harvard political scientist anticipate America's political and intellectual battles -- and point to the country we may become.
by Carlos Lozada via Washington Post on July 18, 2017
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What a 1950s Texas Textbook Can Teach Us About Today's Textbook Fight

Texas education officials have preliminarily voted to reject a Mexican-American history textbook that scholars have said was riddled with inaccuracies.
by Nathan Bernier via KUT 90.5 on November 16, 2016

American Secular

The founding moment of the United States brought a society newly freed from religion. What went wrong?
by Sam Haselby via Aeon on May 26, 2016

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