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Racists in Congress Fought Statehood For Hawaii, But Lost That Battle 60 Years Ago

It took more than five decades for advocates of statehood to vanquish white supremacists in Washington.
by Sarah Miller Davenport via The Conversation on March 18, 2019
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Why the U.S. Bombed Auschwitz, But Didn't Save the Jews

What did the Roosevelt administration know, and when?
by Rafael Medoff via HNN on March 17, 2019

Manufacturing Illegality

Historian Mae Ngai reflects on how a century of immigration law created a crisis.
by Mae Ngai, Peter Costantini via Foreign Policy in Focus on January 16, 2019
Drawing of "Uncle Sam," a common national personification of the U.S., crouched over a church. He appears to be listening to what is going on inside.

Under God

Our secular government is all tangled up with God. How did we get here?
by Jackie Roche via The Nib on November 30, 2018
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The Many Faces of Nativism

As this exhibit shows, anti-immigrant sentiment has been a throughline of American history.
Hooded people kneel before a cross at a Ku Klux Klan rally.

When the Klan Came to Town

History reminds us that firm and sometimes violent opposition to racists is a time-honored American tradition.
by Michael McCanne via Boston Review on October 23, 2018
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How Pocahontas—The Myth and the Slur—Props Up White Supremacy

The roots of the attacks on Elizabeth Warren.
by Honor Sachs via Made By History on October 16, 2018

America’s Missing Labor Party

The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.
by David Sessions via The New Republic on October 2, 2018

Welcome to New York

Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.
by Brendan P. O'Malley via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 12, 2018
Piccirilli brothers in 1930.

Six Italian Immigrants From the Bronx Carved Some of the Nation’s Most Iconic Sculptures

The Lincoln Memorial, the NY Public Library lions, and the senate pediment of the US Capitol Building are among their creations.
by Lucie Levine via 6sqft on July 31, 2018

Today’s Voter Suppression Tactics Have A 150 Year History

Rebels in the post-Civil War South perfected the art of excluding voters, but it was yankees in the North who developed the script.
by Gregory P. Downs via Talking Points Memo on July 26, 2018

Making the Movies Un-American

How Hollywood tried to fight fascism and ended up blacklisting suspected Communists.
by Noah Isenberg via The New Republic on July 3, 2018

Donald Trump's Grandfather Came to the U.S. as an Unaccompanied Minor

President Trump's grandfather made the choice to leave his German family for the U.S. all the way back in 1885.
by Kristine Phillips via Retropolis on June 27, 2018

The Roots of Trump’s Immigration Barbarity

The outrage over family separation creates an opportunity to reverse the bipartisan consensus that has long victimized immigrants.
by Daniel Denvir via Jacobin on June 20, 2018

Lessons From the Gilded Age

America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?
by Sarah Jones via The New Republic on June 13, 2018

Spanish Has Never Been a Foreign Language in the United States

The call to “speak English” in America has a long history that often drowns out our even longer history of diverse language use.
by Rosina Lozano via Los Angeles Times on May 29, 2018

These Should Be The End Times For American Patriotism

Exceptionalism has always been core to American patriotism, and American exceptionalism is no longer tenable.
by Sam Haselby via Aeon on May 8, 2018
Birds eye view of the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1867.

The Tacoma Method

How the Chinese community of Tacoma, Washington Territory was violently expelled in 1885, and what happened next.
by Andrew Gomez via University Of Puget Sound on May 1, 2018
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How the Haitian Refugee Crisis Led to the Indefinite Detention of Immigrants

It wasn't always this way.
by Carl Lindskoog via Made By History on April 9, 2018
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The Origins of the 'Globalist' Slur

The anti-Semitic seeds of its use were firmly planted 75 years ago.
by Ben Zimmer via The Atlantic on March 14, 2018
Political Cartoon of Uncle Sam bringing shovels to McKinley who has one foot in the U.S. and the other in Panama, as American flags dot the globe.

The Large Policy

How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.
by Brenda Wineapple via The Nation on January 31, 2018
Woman in a KKK hood holding a baby.

No, Talking About Women's Role in White Supremacy is NOT Blaming Women

Women’s role in the 1920s KKK can teach us about racism today.
by Laura Smith via Timeline on January 23, 2018
Political cartoon of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis pulling apart a US map while McClellan tries to hold them together.

Politics Is More Partisan Now, But It’s Not More Divisive

And anyway, agreement between the two parties has often masked serious problems.
by Julia Azari via FiveThirtyEight on January 19, 2018

How Trump Is Making Us Rethink American Exceptionalism

This past year has shown that the U.S. is far from immune to the forces shaping the rest of the world.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on January 7, 2018

How American Racism Shaped Nazism

Nazi Germany has closer ties to America and its history of institutionalized racism than some may think.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham via Black Perspectives on October 5, 2017

Recontextualizing the Ocean Blue

Italian Americans and the commemoration of Columbus.
by Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra via Process: A Blog for American History on October 4, 2017

World War I: Immigrants Make a Difference on the Front Lines and at Home

Immigrants eagerly joined the war cause both by joining the military and working in important industry at home.
by Ryan Reft via Library of Congress on September 26, 2017

The True American

A review on the many publications about Henry David Thoreau's life for the bicentennial anniversary of his birthday.
by Robert Pogue Harrison via New York Review of Books on August 17, 2017

Triumph of the Shill

The political theory of Trumpism.
by Corey Robin via n+1 on August 9, 2017
Obama and Trump at Trump's inauguration.

Why Obama Voters Defected

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on June 20, 2017

The Immigration-Obsessed, Polarized, Garbage-Fire Election of 1800

A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.
by A. Roger Ekirch via Longreads on March 28, 2017
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