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From Mooktie to Juan: The Eugenic Origins of the 'Defective Immigrant'

How eugenics shaped America's immigration policy.
by Aparna Nair via Nursing Clio on June 28, 2018

Donald Trump's Grandfather Came to the U.S. as an Unaccompanied Minor

President Trump's grandfather made the choice to leave his German family for the U.S. all the way back in 1885.
by Kristine Phillips via Retropolis on June 27, 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
Timor residents in traditional dress look at a National Geographic photographer demonstrating his camera.

National Geographic Has Always Depended on Exoticism

With its race issue, the magazine is trying a different direction. Can it escape its past?
by Rebecca Onion, John Edwin Mason via Slate on March 14, 2018
A slave father sold away from his family.
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Broken Bonds

Histories of family separation, from the slave trade to ICE raids.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex in Dallas.
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Republicans Want to Use Immigration Policy to Make America Whiter. They’re Destined to Fail.

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.
by Julia G. Young via Made By History on February 6, 2018
Drawing of a black man holding a shovel (out of frame).

Arlington Is More Than a Cemetery

Arlington House’s transformations mirror our own.
by Jackie Roche via The Nib on January 22, 2018

The Forced Absence of Slavery: Rare Letters to a Virginia Governor

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is taking steps to commemorate enslaved people who worked for his predecessor nearly 200 years ago.
by Gregory S. Schneider via Retropolis on September 13, 2017
Oneida Community members outside their mansion house, ca. 1865-1875.
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When We Say “Share Everything,” We Mean Everything

On the Oneida Community, a radical religious organization practicing “Bible communism,” and eventually, manufacturing silverware.
via BackStory on November 17, 2016

The Dramatic Life and Mysterious Death of Theodosia Burr

The fate of Aaron Burr's daughter remains a topic of contention.
by Hadley Meares via Atlas Obscura on October 7, 2016
Map of slave trade in Virginia.
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The Forced Migration of Enslaved People

An interactive set of maps and narratives of the forced migration of approximately 850,000 enslaved people from 1810-1860.
by Ed Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on December 1, 2015
Houdini and a ghostly image of Lincoln.
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Radical Religion and Radical Politics

On the intersection of spiritualism with 19th century social reform movements.
via BackStory on October 30, 2015

Will the Real Henry “Box” Brown Please Stand Up?

New information on Henry Box Brown, an enslaved man who would turn escape into an art form.
by Martha J. Cutter via Commonplace on September 1, 2015

Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence

It is only recently that domestic abuse was identified as a serious, public social problem.
by Peggy Solic via Origins on July 15, 2015
Portrait of stern looking John Winthrop.

Father’s Property and Child Custody in the Colonial Era

The rights and responsibilities of 17th-century fatherhood in England's North American colonies.
by Mary Ann Mason via Berkeley Law (University Of California) on April 11, 2015
Photographer Gordon Parks and Norman Fontanelli, whose family is the subject of Parks's photojournalism.
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Gordon Parks' Diary of a Harlem Family

Narrated photo journal of time spent with a family to discuss poverty and race.
by Public Broadcast Laboratory via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on March 3, 1968

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