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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.
A stack of books in a classroom.
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The Racism of History Textbooks

How history textbooks reinforced narratives of racism, and the fight to change those books from the 1940s to the present.
Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Immigration Act.

The Contradictory Legacy of the 1965 Immigration Act

A law designed to repair flaws in the fabric of American justice also created new ones.

Barbering for Freedom

Segregation, separatism, and the history of black barbershops.
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“All Persons Born or Naturalized in the United States...”

A collection of resources exploring the evolving meanings of American citizenship and how they have been applied -- or denied -- to different groups of Americans.

Migrants holding their shoes, being inspected.

America's Forgotten History Of Mexican-American 'Repatriation'

During the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were deported. Author Francisco Balderrama says that most were American citizens.

'I Want My Country Back' and Exclusionary Visions of America

"You're taking over our country" echoes long-held narratives and has renewed prominence in conservative discourse.
Black family outside their homestead, Nicodemus, Graham County, Kansas.

Exodusters

Migration further west began almost immediately after Reconstruction ended, as Black Americans initiated the "Great Exodus" outside the South toward Kansas.
Shades of green.
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Green Sprigs of Courage

How the mythologizing of the Union Army’s Irish Brigade helped dispel anti-Irish sentiment.
Vintage advertisment for Indian Land on sale, by the U.S. Department of the Interior

Universalizing Settler Liberty

America is best understood not as the first post-colonial republic, but as an expansionist nation built on slavery and native expropriation.

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part III

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.
Willie Nelson at the 1973 Fourth of July Picnic, in Dripping Springs.

That ’70s Show

Forty years ago, Willie, Waylon, Jerry Jeff, and a whole host of Texas misfits brought the hippies and rednecks together in outlaw country.

How Columbus Day Fell Victim to Its Own Success

It's worth remembering that the now-controversial holiday started as a way to empower immigrants and celebrate American diversity.
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The Health of a Nation

Political scientist Jacob Hacker explains how we wound up with a healthcare system so different from the European model, and why lobbyists hold so much sway.
A cream colored map depicting the Middle Passage and trade routes between North America, South America, Africa, and Europe.

What Was Africa to Them?

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.

Great Migration Debates: Keywords in Historical Perspective

The use of the word "immigrant" in contemporary debates often reflects a lack of understanding of U.S. immigration history.
Ted Kaczynski being led by two law enforcement officers.

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber

Purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
Mack Robinson.
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Black Champions: Interview with Mack Robinson

Olympic track and field athlete reflects on the exclusion of African Americans from professional sports and the role his brother Jackie played in changing that.
Jim Brown.
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Black Champions: Interview with Jim Brown

On inclusion of African American athletes in college sports.
Oscar Robertson
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Black Champions: Interview with Oscar Robertson

On coaches' unequal treatment of African American college basketball players.

The Unacknowledged Lesson: Earl Warren and the Japanese Relocation Controversy

Though best known for his dedication to civil rights as Chief Justice, Earl Warren was a key figure behind Japanese internment in California - and stood by it.
Filmmaker William Greaves at a desk with turntables, film reels, and screens.
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The Black Filmmaker

A look at racism in movie-making.
Man interviewing a group of people on the street.
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James Baldwin Comments on the Kerner Commission

The Kerner Commission was credited with exposing systemic racism that inspired resistance in Black communities. James Baldwin argued that it stated the obvious.

Remarks at the Signing of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Liberty Island, New York, October 3, 1965.
Still from “The Rejected,” a 1961 documentary about homosexuals. Hal Call (at right), president of the Mattachine Society and Don Lucas, Mattachine’s executive secretary. Credit: San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive
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The Homosexual in Our Society

This 1958 interview is the earliest known radio recording to overtly discuss homosexuality.
Woman hanging a poster of Hitler with a string of Nazi flags above it.

Who Goes Nazi?

The view from 1941.
Photo of Black woman and boy posing with a car packed with their belongings during the Great Migration.

The Hosts of Black Labor

The South must reform its attitude toward the Negro. The North must reform its attitude toward common labor. 

Strivings of the Negro People

Du Bois’ 1897 essay describes the “double consciousness” of African Americans who are “shut out from their world by a vast veil.”
Henry McNeal Turner.

Am I a Man?: The Fiery 1868 Speech By An Expelled Black Legislator In Georgia

The expulsion of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee House recalls an earlier expulsion of dozens of Black lawmakers from Georgia's General Assembly.
Manuscript page of Stephen Austin's contract to bring settlers to Texas.

Stephen Austin's Contract to Bring Settlers to Texas

A spotlight on a primary source.
Portrait of two men staring out in the open

The Gay Black American Who Stared Down Nazis in the Name of Love

One of the most brilliant minds of the Harvard class of ’35, Reed Peggram met his soulmate on the eve of World War II and risked everything to stay by his side.

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