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200 Years of Immigration Data Put Trump's Ban into Context

In light of President Trump's temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, we take a look at larger immigration trends.
by Alan M. Kraut via STAT on January 31, 2017

“The Passing of the Great Race” at 100

In the age of Trump, Madison Grant's influential work of scientific racism takes on a new salience.
by Noel Hartman via Public Books on July 1, 2016
Carrie Buck with her mother Emma.

The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement

It's impossible to revisit the history of America's quest for racial purity without sometimes being reminded of the current public discourse.
by Andrea DenHoed via The New Yorker on April 27, 2016

Donald Trump and the Return of the 1920s

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.
by Richard Yeselson via The Atlantic on December 30, 2015

Close the Gate? Refugees, Radicals, and the Red Scare of 1919

If radicalism meant insecurity, and immigration meant radicalism, the government's course was clear.
by Andrew Lipsett via We're History on November 30, 2015

37 Maps That Explain How America Is a Nation of Immigrants

It's impossible to understand the country without knowing who's been kept out, who's been let in, and how they've been treated once they arrive.
by Dara Lind via Vox on January 12, 2015
Demonstrator with a sign advocating the release of Mahmoud Khalil.

Trump’s Deportations Are a Throwback to Red Scare Politics

The long tradition of the US government using border policy as a tool for political control, stretching back to Red Scare efforts to suppress left-wing dissent.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Jacobin on March 20, 2025
The Ku Klux Klan parading near the Capitol Building in 1925, holding American flags.

What Felt Impossible Became Possible

George Dale's crusade against the Ku Klux Klan.
by Dan Sinker via Dan Sinker Blog on February 23, 2025
Alice Rhinelander surrounded by well-dressed family members awaiting the jury verdict in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander.

How an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twenties

Under pressure from his wealthy family, Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander claimed that his new wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, had tricked him into believing she was white.
by Bryan Greene via Smithsonian on November 20, 2024
A drawing of two parents and a child running at a border, their silhouettes being sliced by a chainlink fence.

The Crime of Human Movement

Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.
by Coco Fusco via New York Review of Books on October 31, 2024
4 photographs of Josie Rudolph Thurnauer through the years 1874-1938.

Josie’s Story: From 19th-Century Sitka To Her Escape From The Holocaust

Josie Rudolph’s life, in an era of worldwide migration and colonial ambition, offers a new perspective on the familiar tale of modern Alaska’s birth.
by Tom Kizzia via Anchorage Daily News on October 28, 2024
People holding signs for Trump and for deportation, in front of an American Flag.

How Immigration Became a Lightning Rod in American Politics

Anti-immigrant think tanks and advocacy groups operated on the margins until Trump became president. Now they have molded not only the GOP but also Democrats.
by Gaby del Valle via The Nation on September 25, 2024
Alain Locke.

A Century of Cultural Pluralism

How an unlikely American friendship should inspire diversity, equity, and inclusion.
by David Weinfeld via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on August 21, 2024
Painting of abstract lines obscuring faces on the cover of "Feeling Asian American" by Wen Liu.

Racial Hierarchies: Japanese American Immigrants in California

The belief of first-generation Japanese immigrants in their racial superiority over Filipinos was a by-product of the San Joaquin Delta's white hegemony.
by H. M. A. Leow, Eiichiro Azuma via JSTOR Daily on July 1, 2024
Street vendors at the border crossing in Tijuana, 2006.

Fortifying the U.S.-Mexico Boundary

The 1993 “Hold the Line” experiment.
by Justin I. Salgado via Origins on June 8, 2024
Border patrol agents in a physical training.

From Suspect to Perpetrato

How history shaped the modern U.S. Border Patrol agent.
by Ernesto Chávez, Ervin A. Zubiate-Rocha via Public Books on June 5, 2024
A large KKK Rally with burning crosses in the background.

100 Years Ago, the KKK Planted Bombs at a US University – Part of Their Crusade Against Catholics

Most of the Klan’s victims were African American, but many other groups have been targeted during the hate group’s century and a half of history.
by William Trollinger via The Conversation on December 15, 2023
Antisemitism Is a Threat to Us All — And to Democracy

Antisemitism Is a Threat to Us All — And to Democracy

How fascists and authoritarians have used antisemitic conspiracy theories to harm Jewish communities and undermine democracy.
by William Horne via Bucks County Beacon on November 28, 2023
Hari Kondabolu and Hank Azaria.
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What’s Missing in the Discussion About Race Sparked by Apu in ‘The Simpsons’

The history of Sephardic Jews challenges our ideas about race in America.
by Devin E. Naar via Made By History on May 18, 2023
Nikki Haley speaking at the White House.
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The Asian American Presidential Nominee Who Blazed a Path for Nikki Haley

What the differences between Hiram Fong and Nikki Haley tell us about changes to the GOP.
by Vivian Yan-Gonzalez via Made By History on February 8, 2023
Christmas lights and decor
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Christmas Lights — Brought to You By a Jew From the Muslim World

Jews from the Ottoman Empire pioneered the Christmas lights market a century ago — but nativism, antisemitism and islamophobia obscured this history.
by Devin E. Naar via Made By History on December 21, 2022
Crowds of people filling Ellis Island Immigration Station

Ken Burns Turns His Lens on the American Response to the Holocaust

Commemorating the Holocaust has become a central part of American culture, but the nation’s reaction in real time was another story.
by James McAuley via The New Yorker on September 18, 2022
Collage of documents and photographs relating to Younghill Kang.

Younghill Kang Is Missing

How an Asian American literary pioneer fell into obscurity.
by Esther Kim via Asian American Writers' Workshop on September 7, 2022
A group of anti-gay activists protests a parade during a Pride event in support of LGBTQ rights in Seoul on July 16.
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The White Christian Understanding of the U.S. Has a Global History

Missionaries spread the idea that Christianity accounts for American success throughout the world.
by Chanhee Heo via Made By History on August 31, 2022
Quisqueya Bodega in Crown Heights

The NYC Bodega: A History of Violence and Resilience

Bodegas serve as lifelines and community centers, yet have faced heinous violence. Here is the story of the New York City bodega.
by Isa Farfan via Untapped New York on July 19, 2022
Guinan Phillips, 31, attends a candlelit memorial for victims of the mass shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo. (Heather Ainsworth for The Washington Post)
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The Tie Between the Buffalo Shooting and Banning Abortion

The two may seem unconnected, but a centuries-long history of panic about White birth rates binds them together.
by Mytheli Sreenivas via Made By History on May 20, 2022
Dancing at the spring festival at St. George in 1984.

'The World Was Ukrainian'

A stubborn and surprising immigrant enclave, hiding in plain sight on the Lower East Side.
by Christopher Bonanos via Curbed on April 11, 2022
Picture of the many different people that make up the US.

The Right to Leave

Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of open migration. But who qualified as a refugee?
by Stephanie Degooyer via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 29, 2022
Ballots in sealed envelopes, in a plastic box with a sticker that reads "Vote NYC."
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You Didn’t Always Have to Be a Citizen to Vote in America

The electorate has consistently changed over time as politicians seek to shape it in their favor.
by Rachel Michelle Gunter via Made By History on December 29, 2021
Stack of calculus textbooks.
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Racism In Our Curriculums Isn’t Limited to History. It’s in Math, Too.

Let's recognize the scholar who was behind the other "CRT."
by Theodore Kim via Made By History on December 8, 2021
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