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A composite photograph of South Carolina's majority-black legislature created and circulated by opponents of Reconstruction

The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.
by Vanessa Williamson via Dissent on January 11, 2021
The Oquirrh Mountain Temple in Salt Lake City

The Most American Religion

Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis.
by McKay Coppins via The Atlantic on December 16, 2020
Ernest Thompson Seton posing with three citizens of the Blackfeet Nation, ca. 1917.

This Land Is Your Land

Native minstrelsy and the American summer camp movement.
by Asa Seresin via Cabinet on December 15, 2020
A picture of a man and a graffiti wall

The Origins of an Early School-to-Deportation Pipeline

Appeals to childhood innocence helped enshrine undocumented kids’ access to education. But this has also inadvertently reinforced criminalization.
by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez via NACLA on November 6, 2020
Know-Nothing flag
Exhibit

The Many Faces of Nativism

As this exhibit shows, anti-immigrant sentiment has been a throughline of American history.
Vandalized Christopher Columbus statue
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Columbus Day Had Value for Italian Americans — But It’s Time to Rethink It

It helped erode discrimination but also upheld racial prejudice.
by Danielle Battisti via Made By History on October 12, 2020
Artistic photo with american flags

Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents

Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?
by Jeet Heer via The Nation on October 6, 2020
Two adults holding hands with a child in front of a Christmas tree

The Oracle of Our Unease

The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.
by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on September 24, 2020

The Return of American Fascism

How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.
by Sarah Churchwell via New Statesman on September 2, 2020
Men lined up on a set of stairs.

Who Is "Essential"?

On the need to rethink the U.S. immigration and refugee policy, which was shaped as part of Cold War strategy.
by Mae Ngai via Perspectives on History on August 21, 2020
Armed troops wearing gas masks walk through tear gas at Black Lives Matter protest.
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The Extraordinary Scene Unfolding in Portland Has a Disturbing History

How immigration enforcement and policing became entwined
by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez via Made By History on July 19, 2020

The Invention of the Police

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on July 13, 2020
Photograph of Mike Mahoney on the White House grounds.

Blood and Vanishing Topsoil

“We’re the virus.” So read a tweet in March praising reports of less pollution in countries under COVID-19 lockdown. By mid-April, it had nearly 300,000 likes.
by Alex Amend via Political Research Associates on July 9, 2020
Trestle on Central Pacific Railroad, by Carleton Watkins, 1877.

A Campaign of Forced Self-Deportation

The history of anti-Chinese violence in Truckee, California, is as old as the town itself.
by Adam Goodman via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 1, 2020

The Past and Future of Latinx Politics

Two new books look at the history of Latinx Democrats and Republicans and the role each will play in the future.
by Ed Morales via The Nation on June 30, 2020

When Did Cheap Meat Become an “Essential” American Value?

Keeping meat production moving during the pandemic is dangerous. But history shows that there’s little Americans won’t sacrifice for a cheap steak.
by Rebecca Onion, Joshua Specht via Slate on May 14, 2020

Typhoid Mary Was a Maligned Immigrant Who Got a Bum Rap

Now, she's become hashtag shorthand for people who defy social distancing orders.
by Katherine A. Foss via The Conversation on April 24, 2020
A man wearing a white shirt with a black "L," with people holding flags in the background

How Nazism’s Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

On the growing tide of racial animosity in 1930s Los Angeles.
by Donna Rifkind via Literary Hub on February 7, 2020

Organic Farming's Political History

Despite its countercultural associations today, organic farming was entangled with fascist and quasi-fascist politics at its origins.
by Michelle Niemann via Edge Effects on January 23, 2020
Abortion advertisement in the National Police Gazette, 1847.

“Female Monthly Pills” and the Coded Language of Abortion Before Roe

Our future might look much like our past, with pills as a major part of abortion access—and an obsessive target for abortion opponents.
by Melissa Gira Grant via The New Republic on January 22, 2020

Pioneers of American Publicity

How John and Jessie Frémont explored the frontiers of legend-making.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on January 20, 2020
Mexican tenor Alfonso Ortiz Tirado, La Prensa publisher Ignacio Lozano, and Hollywood actor Antonio Moreno before a performance to benefit the Mexican Clinic in San Antonio

How Three Texas Newspapers Manufactured Three Competing Images of Immigrants

In Depression-era San Antonio, polarized portraits of Mexicans appealed to the biases of readers.
by Melita M. Garza via Zócalo Public Square on December 5, 2019
Trump with hands folded and eyes closed, as if in prayer.
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Explaining the Bond Between Trump and White Evangelicals

It's all about an agenda — and it's nothing new.
by Matthew Avery Sutton via Made By History on November 21, 2019

Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, he dreamed of a pluralist utopia.
by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on November 9, 2019

Zombie Flu: How the 1919 Influenza Pandemic Fueled the Rise of the Living Dead

Did mass graves in the influenza pandemic help give rise to the living dead?
by Elizabeth Outka via The Conversation on October 28, 2019

Who Was Tank Kee?

He wanted to be an ally of the Chinese immigrant. By pretending to be one himself.
by Christopher Decou via Contingent on October 28, 2019
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For 25 Years, Operation Gatekeeper Has Made Life Worse for Border Communities

The policy of "prevention through deterrence" has been deadly.
by Pedro Rios via Made By History on October 1, 2019
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The Outsider

Who was behind the "Trumpist manifesto" released twenty years before Trump became president?
by Matthew Rose via First Things on September 16, 2019

Escaped Nuns

Why some antebellum reformers thought convents were incompatible with "true womanhood."
by Pete Cajka, Cassandra L. Yacovazzi via Religion in American History on June 17, 2019

Mass Incarceration Didn't Start with the War on Crime

A review of "City of Inmates" by Kelly Lytle Hernández.
by Llana Barber via The Metropole on April 24, 2019

The Tragedy of 'The Tragedy of the Commons'

The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe.
by Matto Mildenberger via Scientific American on April 23, 2019
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