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White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream

“Very fine people”—fathers and husbands, as well as mothers and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.
by Stephen Kantrowitz via Boston Review on July 23, 2018
Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

Trumpism Before Trump

The popular Trump rhetoric of demonizing immigrants has been procured for decades.
by Calvin Terbeek, Robert L. Tsai via Boston Review on June 11, 2018

Bang for the Buck

Three new books paint a more nuanced portrait of the American militias whose gun rights have been protected since the founding.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on March 15, 2018
Gary Cohn

The Origins of the 'Globalist' Slur

The anti-Semitic seeds of its use were firmly planted 75 years ago.
by Ben Zimmer via The Atlantic on March 14, 2018

The People's Grocery Lynching, Memphis, Tennessee

Thomas Moss’ lynching, like many others in the South, was a punishment for becoming an economic competitor to whites.
by Damon Mitchell via JSTOR Daily on January 24, 2018

The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos

Back when video of Vinny Licciardi smashing a computer zigzagged all over the internet, "viral" wan't even a thing yet.
by Joe Veix via Wired on January 12, 2018

Ku Klux Klambakes

What does the Klan of the 1920s have to teach us about the resurgence of organized bigotry in the Trump era?
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on December 7, 2017

Trump Plans to Release JFK Assassination Documents Despite Concerns From Federal Agencies

What's still under wraps, and what it might tell us about Lee Harvey Oswald.
by Ian Shapira via Washington Post on October 21, 2017

What Facebook Did to American Democracy

And why it was so hard to see it coming.
by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on October 12, 2017

A Night at the Garden

Newly discovered footage of the time 20,000 American Nazis descended upon midtown Manhattan.
by Marshall Curry via Field Of Vision on October 10, 2017
Billy Graham at a speaker's podium (Photo by Ninian Reid).

The Preacher and Vietnam: When Billy Graham Urged Nixon to Kill One Million People

The disclosure of Billy Graham's recommendation of war crimes did not exicte any commotion.
by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair via CounterPunch on September 27, 2017
Otis Redding

Five Magnificent Years

A recent Otis Redding biography examines what was and what could have been, 50 years after tragedy struck.
by Geoffrey O'Brien via New York Review of Books on September 10, 2017
James Buchanan

What Is the Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority.

The author of a new biography of James McGill Buchanan explains how this little-known libertarian’s work is influencing modern-day politics.
by Nancy MacLean, Rebecca Onion via Slate on June 22, 2017
Nixon taking the oath of office.

Americans Aren't Just Divided Politically, They're Divided Over History Too

Underlying current debates, says Jill Lepore, are fundamental conflicts over the meanings of the past.
by Jill Lepore, Rachel Martin via NPR on May 23, 2017
Louis Farrakhan walking with group

The Charmer

Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests.
by Fredrik deBoer via Harper’s on January 1, 2016
Visa as the Mark of the Beast, as imagined by a 1960s Christian tract.

Technology and Apocalypse in America

Some sects of Christian belief have long held that various forms of technology were signs of an approaching apocalypse.
by Daniel Salas via The Appendix on August 27, 2014
Johnson behind President Kennedy as they left the Hotel Texas, in Fort Worth, the day that Kennedy was assassinated.

The Day L.B.J. Took Charge

Lyndon Johnson and the events in Dallas.
by Robert A. Caro via The New Yorker on March 26, 2012
Amelia Earhart wearing flight gear.

Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight

The aviation pioneer was many things before—and after—her career as a pilot was cut short.
by Judith Thurman via The New Yorker on September 6, 2009
Los Angeles Times building, after being bombed on October 1, 1910

How They Blew Up the L.A. Times

During the half-century between Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson, class warfare in the United States was always robust, usually ferocious, and often homicidal.
by Russell Baker via New York Review of Books on November 20, 2008
Stokely Carmichael talking to members of the press at the House Rules Committee (1966).

Watching the Watchers

Confessions of an FBI special agent.
by Robert Wall via New York Review of Books on January 27, 1972

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