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Man in foreground wearing neo-Nazi patch, man in background holding Confederate flag.

Worshiping the Confederacy is About White Supremacy — Even the Nazis Thought So

Confederate memory nurtured fascism.

by Nina Silber via Made By History on August 17, 2017

A Look Back at a 1939 Pro-Nazi Rally and the Protesters Who Organized Against It

Seventy-eight years ago, protesters and white supremacists clashed outside of Madison Square Garden.

by Matt Giles via Longreads on August 14, 2017

Six Nazi Spies Were Executed in D.C. White Supremacists Gave Them a Memorial

The memorial to the men sat in a field until 2010 when officials took a fork lift to it.

by John Woodrow Cox via Retropolis on June 23, 2017

His Kampf

Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.

by Graeme Wood via The Atlantic on June 1, 2017

Dark Satirical Maps from a Depression-Era Anti-Fascist Magazine

The magazine's founders swore it was anti-communist, but that wasn't enough to convince skittish advertisers to stick with it.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 17, 2017

Trump Isn't the Apotheosis of Conservatism

Writers like Rick Perlstein miss the ways in which Trump’s rise is a story of discontinuity.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on April 15, 2017

A scene from Birth of a Nation.

Births of a Nation

Cedric Robinson has a great deal to teach us about Trumpism and the significance of resistance in determining the future.

by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on March 6, 2017

When Antifascism Comes to America

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

by Joseph M. Fronczak via Process: A Blog for American History on January 12, 2017

The Weimar Analogy

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

by Daniel Bessner, Udi Greenberg via Jacobin on December 17, 2016

Is Racism a Disease?

Is a psychological diagnosis a useful way to view racism-or does it merely absolve the racist of blame?

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 17, 2016

Names in the Ivy League

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.

by Joshua Rothman via The New Yorker on November 26, 2015

What Americans Thought of Jewish Refugees on the Eve of World War II

On the eve of World War 2, most Americans opposed granting asylum to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler.

by Ishaan Tharoor via Washington Post on November 17, 2015

Banner of George Washington on a stage with nazi symbols and the American flag

Nazis Rallied at Madison Square Garden

A chilling raw feed of an infamous event.

by Andy Lanset via WNYC

Mushroom cloud of a nuclear bomb going off.

Inside the History of Nuclear Science

Eighty years after the bomb, scientists still grapple with nuclear legacy. Some seek atonement, others insist it’s no longer their burden.

by Erik Baker via New Statesman on August 6, 2025

John F. Kennedy meeting with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, 1961.

The Way We Understand the Cold War Is Wrong

People tend to assume they know exactly what the Cold War was and when it ended. Anders Stephanson argues that this standard chronology doesn’t fit the facts.

by Anders Stephanson via Jacobin on July 27, 2025

Trump poster hanging on a federal building, scowling at people below.

If Trump Could Make John Wayne the Head of Homeland Security, He Would

Trump mixes restoration with revolution—his reactionary modernism wooed Silicon Valley, but for everyone else, it signals looming repression.

by John Ganz via The Nation on June 10, 2025

William F. Buckley reclines behind a desk, glasses in hand, a bulletin board of National Review magazine material behind him.

The Conservative Intellectual Who Laid the Groundwork for Trump

The political vision that William F. Buckley helped forge was—and remains today—focused less on adhering to principles and more on ferreting out enemies.

by Jack McCordick via The New Republic on June 3, 2025

Cartoon drawing with Red Scare history written on New York City buildings.

When the Red Scare Came for Jessica Mitford

A graphic episode from "Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me."

by Mimi Pond via The Nation on May 13, 2025

The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658.

The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."

by Greg Grandin, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on April 21, 2025

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

‘It Reminds You of a Fascist State’: Smithsonian Institution Braces for Trump Rewrite of US History

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex.

by David Smith via The Guardian on March 30, 2025

A drawing of a variety of social movements protesting.

Peaceable Revolutions

Linda Gordon argues that social movements are vital partnerships that, by challenging the status quo, are indispensable to the health of the nation.

by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on March 20, 2025

French Gen. Jean de Rochambeau and American Gen. George Washington giving the last orders in October 1781 for the battle at Yorktown.

How Allies Have Helped the US Gain Independence, Defend Freedom and Keep the Peace

Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.

by Donald Heflin via The Conversation on February 20, 2025

A magnifying glass and Francis Fukuyama's book "The End of History and the Last Man."

Francis Fukuyama Was Right About Liberal Democracy

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously challenge it.

by Michael A. Cohen via The New Republic on February 18, 2025

The End of Resistance History

What was the liberal #Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And what did commentators like Heather Cox Richardson morph into during the Biden years?

by Charlotte Rosen via Protean on January 20, 2025

A cartoon of a group of effeminate men walking together.

Rise and Fall of the ‘Pansy Craze’

On Jazz Age gay culture and its backlash.

by Margaret Vandenburg via Gay And Lesbian Review on January 2, 2025

Ku Kluz Klan imperial wizard Hiram Wesley Evans.

Making Sense of the Second Ku Klux Klan

Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s reactionary activists and policymakers.

by Chad Pearson via Jacobin on December 22, 2024

Richard Nixon at a press conference pointing at a reporter.

Nixon’s Official Acts Against His Enemies List Led to a Bipartisan Impeachment Effort

An enemies list isn’t a weapon against ‘the Deep State.’ It was a tool Richard Nixon used to create a deep state of his own.

by Ken Hughes via The Conversation on December 18, 2024

A crowd at a Trump rally, holding signs and flags endorsing him, as well as a Confederate flag.

Trump Is Not an Aberration

America’s path has been contested since its founding, and realizing the promise of liberty required generations of struggle.

by Jeffrey C. Isaac via New Lines on November 12, 2024

Image of the outline of the United States in red fire.

A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again

How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the Klan’s rule in Indiana.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via The New Yorker on November 9, 2024

History Teaches …

On being defeated.

by Felicia Kornbluh via The American Prospect on November 7, 2024

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