Islamophobia

Today’s legislative efforts against the Palestine solidarity movement bear a striking resemblance to McCarthyism in both tactics and ideology.

Socialist legislator Zohran Mamdani is running for New York City mayor against a corrupt, unpopular mayor. Morris Hillquit did the same thing a century ago.

The symbols sported by Trump’s defense pick show how the medieval past is being reimagined by Christian nationalists, behind a shield of plausible deniability.

Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as they happened.

Panic about Catholics, Freemasons, and, later, Jews, is deeply woven into American history, and forms the basis of our fertile culture of conspiracy theorizing.

A long Euro-American tradition of genocide and ethnic cleansing imagined freeing a barren Palestine from Palestinian barbarity and heathenism.

A feminist perspective on the first and only female prime minister of Israel.

Lee's life and work suggested that Asian American identity did not possess—and did not need—any underlying reality beyond solidarity.

The history of race has animated a highly contentious, sometimes fractious debate among scholars.

In her new role as antisemitism envoy, Deborah Lipstadt will attempt to fight a scourge of antisemitism that she seems to regard as incurable.

A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.

Two new books argue that the War on Terror changed American politics, but what if the sources of its violence were already long present in the country?

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.

Since its emergence in the middle of the twentieth century, the American Empire has been fueled by the search for an enemy.

The United States often touts itself as a "nation of immigrants," but this obscures the real story.

From Germans and Irish to blacks and Jews, new Americans often have been told to “go home.”

Amy Kaplan’s new book examines the pioneering cultural myths that have tied Israel and the United States together.

As the British Empire's power expanded, piracy became criminalized.

Islamophobes today ignore the long history and contributions of Muslim Americans.

The rising tie between black activism and pro-Palestinian advocacy.

Smithsonian curator of religion Peter Manseau weighs in on a history that must be told.

In retrospect, it was peculiar but not surprising that the Jewish-American novel peaked early—halfway through the beginning, to be precise.

American evangelicals once saw the Soviet Union and other communist countries as the world’s greatest threat to their faith.

From domestic concentration camps to the war on terror.

Pundits can't seem to define what exactly the term refers to. Turns out it was developed for a very particular historical moment.

A roundup of historians' commentary about Billy Graham in the wake of his death.

Peyote use has been defended with religious liberty arguments. So has Bible reading in public schools.

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.