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Eugene Debs mug shots at the US Penitentiary in Atlanta.

War Fever

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.

by Eric Foner via The Nation on February 7, 2023

Oscar Andrade prays at the Ironwood Forest National Monument near Marana, Ariz., before searching for a missing Honduran migrant, in September.

Border Enforcement Has Been Deadly By Design

The Biden administration’s expanded use of Title 42 to expel asylum seekers will take a toll.

by Joel Zapata via Made By History on January 20, 2023

Ken Burns speaking into a microphone.

Shaming Americans

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

by Amity Shlaes via City Journal on January 9, 2023

A migrant child plays with a Captain America action figure by the U.S. border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

U.S. Policies Like Title 42 Make Migrants More Vulnerable to Smugglers

Since the 1960s, border enforcement and deterrence policies have made migrants vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.

by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez via Made By History on January 3, 2023

Illustrated person in prison garb running away from a burning prison.

Cold War Flames on US Soil: The Oakdale Prison Riot

In the 1980s, Cold War tensions led to thousands of Cubans languishing in American prisons, unable to be released or repatriated. Uprisings followed.

by Mark Atwood Lawrence, Antonio Matheus, Michael Welch, Ethan A. Klingsberg via JSTOR Daily on November 17, 2022

Map of the Cherokee Country in 1900

How the Supreme Court Failed to Stop the Brutal Relocation of Indigenous American Nations

On the legal challenges to racist presidential policy that led to the Trail of Tears.

by Joel Richard Paul via Literary Hub on October 25, 2022

Picture of Haitian migrants crossing the Rio Grande river.

Enslaved Black Americans Crossed Borders to Find Freedom. Today’s Asylum Seekers Want the Same.

Restriction and deportation exist in opposition to the political traditions of the African American freedom struggle.

by Sean Gallagher via Made By History on February 14, 2022

Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan wave at inauguration in 1981

Reagan’s War on Drugs Also Waged War on Immigrants

Lawmakers are undoing the worst parts of 1980s drug legislation, but they have forgotten its ties to immigration enforcement.

by Alexander M. Stephens via Made By History on October 27, 2021

People on the street and burning car amidst debris

Los Angeles Could Have Rebuilt a Better City After the Rodney King Violence. Here's Why It Failed.

Leading gangs in Los Angeles were making peace as the city burned. How the city failed them rewrites our understanding of that moment.

by Elizabeth Hinton via TIME on May 18, 2021

How the Modern NRA Was Born at the Border

A conversation between a historian and the creator of a new documentary short about NRA leader Harlon Carter.

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Sierra Pettengill via Boston Review on May 7, 2021

The Amistad slave ship

Birthright Citizenship, Slave Trade Legislation, and the Origins of Federal Immigration Regulation

Opponents of birthright citizenship say there weren't any “illegal aliens” when the 14th Amendment was drafted. They're wrong.

by Gabriel Chin, Paul Finkelman via UC Davis Law Review on April 9, 2021

Blood & Fire: The Bombing of Wall Street, 100 Years Later

When a converted ice cream wagon blew up in Wall Street, it was the loudest burst in a war between the Federal government and American Anarchists.

by Nathan Ward via CrimeReads on September 16, 2020

Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make Reparations for Slavery

But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.

by Kali Holloway via The Nation on March 23, 2020

How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History

At Boston Latin School teachers are changing the way they prepare their students to think critically about immigration policy.

by Anna-Cat Brigida via YES! on January 9, 2020

Mexican tenor Alfonso Ortiz Tirado, La Prensa publisher Ignacio Lozano, and Hollywood actor Antonio Moreno before a performance to benefit the Mexican Clinic in San Antonio

How Three Texas Newspapers Manufactured Three Competing Images of Immigrants

In Depression-era San Antonio, polarized portraits of Mexicans appealed to the biases of readers.

by Melita M. Garza via Zócalo Public Square on December 5, 2019

The Immigration Crisis Archive

How did today's bipartisan understanding of immigration—as an intolerable threat that justifies any means to stop it—take hold?

by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández via Public Books on October 25, 2019

John Tanton

John Tanton Has Died. He Made America Less Open to Immigrants — and More Open to Trump.

The nativist activist helped make anti-immigrant politics mainstream.

by Carly Goodman via Made By History on July 18, 2019

Horses with ribbons and a man counting his gambling winnings.

History’s Greatest Horse Racing Cheat and His Incredible Painting Trick

In the sport’s post-Depression heyday, one audacious grifter beat the odds with an elaborate scam: disguising fast horses to look like slow ones.

by Josh Nathan-Kazis via Narratively on June 6, 2019

‘Midwesterners Have Seen Themselves As Being in the Center of Everything.’

In “The Heartland,” Kristin L. Hoganson says America’s Midwest has been more connected to global events than remembered.

by Kristin L. Hoganson, Bridey Heing via Longreads on April 23, 2019

The History Before Us

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?

by Jessica Jacobs via Guernica on January 21, 2019

For Private Prisons, Detaining Immigrants Is Big Business

Today, despite their mixed record, private prison companies are overseeing the vast majority of undocumented migrants.

by Sarah Weiser, Noah Madoff, Anne Checler via Retro Report on October 1, 2018

Apple Macintosh computers sit on double decked manufacturing lines, 1984

The Undocumented Workers who Built Silicon Valley

Undocumented workers have been foundational to the rise of our most vaunted hub of innovative capitalism.

by Louis Hyman via Made By History on August 30, 2018

Donald Trump’s Use of the “Star-Spangled Banner” Is an American Tradition

It's a short song with a complicated history.

by Michael J. Pfeifer via HNN on May 29, 2018

Sending Even More Immigrants to Prison

Despite Jeff Sessions’ new mandate along the border, the Justice Department has prioritized immigration offenses for years.

by Yolanda Martinez via The Marshall Project on May 20, 2018

How the Haitian Refugee Crisis Led to the Indefinite Detention of Immigrants

It wasn't always this way.

by Carl Lindskoog via Made By History on April 9, 2018

Anthony Burns

Sanctuary-City Advocates Are Like Abolitionists – Not Secessionists

A history lesson for attorney general Jeff Sessions.

by Judith Giesberg via Made By History on March 6, 2018

The river between modern-day El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juarez, CH from the 1857 Mexican Boundary Survey

The River That Became a Warzone

The US-Mexico border wall is disrupting and destroying the lives of a united binational community.

by Zeke Peña via The Nib on December 21, 2017

Historians and the Carceral State

Examining histories of mass incarceration and views on teaching histories of the carceral state.

via Process: A Blog for American History on June 18, 2015

The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.

By supporting repressive governments, the U.S. has fueled the violence that has caused tens of thousands of kids to flee north.

by Alexander Main via Dissent on July 30, 2014

The U.S. Confiscated Half a Billion Dollars in Private Property During WWI

America's home front was the site of internment, deportation, and vast property seizure.

by Daniel A. Gross via Smithsonian on July 28, 2014

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