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How A Child Born More Than 400 Years Ago Became A Symbol of White Nationalism

Virginia Dare and the myth of American whiteness.

by Andrew Lawler via Made By History on May 24, 2018

The Liberal Delusion of #ResistanceGenealogy

The effort to dig up information about the immigrant ancestors of prominent Trumpsters is doing more harm than good.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 15, 2018

End of the American Dream? The Dark History of 'America First'

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

by Sarah Churchwell via The Guardian on April 21, 2018

Voices in Time: The KKK Makes Its Case in Mass Media

The author of "The Second Coming of the KKK" shows an early twentieth-century attempt to go mainstream.

by Linda Gordon via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 12, 2018

Know-Nothing flag

The Many Faces of Nativism

As this exhibit shows, anti-immigrant sentiment has been a throughline of American history.

The Lynching of Robert Prager

The high-water mark of the anti-immigrant and anti-German hysteria that gripped the nation during World War I.

by Jeff Manuel via We're History on April 5, 2018

Young men in custody after the Zoot Suit Riots.

The Dangerous Game Donald Trump Is Playing With MS-13

Exaggerating the danger of the group only creates new problems.

by Roberto José Andrade Franco via Made By History on March 7, 2018

Today’s Eerie Echoes of the Civil War

We may not be in the midst of a war today, but the progress of democracy in this country is still tied to the rights of its most vulnerable citizens.

by Manisha Sinha via New York Review of Books on March 6, 2018

Who Does She Stand For?

As the Statue of Liberty turned 100, our long battle over immigration was having its moment in Reagan’s America.

by Paul A. Kramer via Slate on March 5, 2018

‘The Snake’: How Trump Appropriated a Radical Black Singer’s Lyrics

A former communist from Chicago wrote the song in the 1960s, decades before Trump turned it into an anti-immigrant fable.

by Eli Rosenberg via Washington Post on February 24, 2018

The Dangerous Economics of Racial Resentment During World War II

White farmers, threatened by Japanese-Americans' success, played a critical role in the creation of internment camps.

by Gwynn Guilford via Quartz on February 13, 2018

Immigrants Welcome*

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an abberation: US citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.

by Maytha Alhassan via Boston Review on February 6, 2018

The GOP's Evolution On Immigration

Republicans used to take a softer line on immigration. What happened?

by Don Gonyea via NPR on January 25, 2018

Fans of Trump’s Immigration Views Should Remember How Figures Like Him Targeted Their Ancestors

Keeping the Irish poor out of America helped shape our restrictive immigration policies.

by Hidetaka Hiroka via Made By History on January 16, 2018

Five Decades of White Backlash

President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on January 15, 2018

Political cartoon of the Populist Party python eating the Democratic Party donkey.

Historians Have Long Thought Populism Was a Good Thing. Are They Wrong?

Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on January 14, 2018

Trump’s Views on Immigration Aren’t as Bad as Those in The 1920s. They’re Worse.

The designers of the quota system at least tried to hide their racism.

by David C. Atkinson via Made By History on January 14, 2018

Historian Timothy Naftali being interviewed by Fareed Zakaria on television.

How Republicans Set the Stage for Trump’s Corrosive Ideas on Immigration

Trump's language might be uniquely vulgar but his ideas are part of a long trend.

by Rick Baldoz via Made By History on January 13, 2018

Two Hundred Years on the Erie Canal

A digital exhibit on the history and legacy of the canal.

by Heidi Zimmer, Dan Ward via Digital Public Library of America on January 1, 2018

KKK march in Washington in 1925.

The Second Klan

Linda Gordon’s new book captures how white supremacy has long been part of our political mainstream.

by Kevin M. Kruse via The Nation on December 13, 2017

Ku Klux Klambakes

What does the Klan of the 1920s have to teach us about the resurgence of organized bigotry in the Trump era?

by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on December 7, 2017

Sanctuary Syllabus

Inspired by Trump's election and his anti-immigrant policies, a group of scholars compiled this collection on the idea of "sanctuary."

by Paula Chakravartty, Yoav Halperin, Monica Kim, Rachel Kuo, Molly Nolan, Sonya Posmentier, Sarah Sklaw, Shivani Srivastav via Public Books on December 5, 2017

The Nationalist's Delusion

Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty—not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 20, 2017

Louis Beam

Armed Resistance, Lone Wolves, and Media Messaging: Meet the Godfather of the ‘Alt-Right’

There would be no Richard Spencer without Louis Beam.

by Laura Smith via Timeline on November 6, 2017

The Ugly History of the Pledge of Allegiance — and Why it Matters

Requiring displays of patriotism have often been tied to nativism and bigotry.

by Christopher F. Petrella via Made By History on November 3, 2017

Question in a quiz about nativist newspaper headlines.

Guess Whether These Headlines Came From Breitbart or 1920s KKK Newspapers

Today's headlines evoke the the racist and hate filled headlines of KKK publications.

by Andrew Kahn, Rebecca Onion, Peter A. Shulman via Slate on September 14, 2017

Remembering Our KKK Past

A dark moment in American history offers lessons for the present.

by Jane Dailey via HuffPost on September 12, 2017

Trump’s Move to End DACA and Echoes of the Immigration Act of 1924

By ending DACA, President Trump seems to be trying to resurrect a national immigration policy defined by racial engineering.

by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on September 5, 2017

The Yakima Terror

Ninety years ago in Washington, a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment resulted in horror for Filipinos.

by Steve Ross via Slate on August 4, 2017

Samuel Huntington, a Prophet for the Trump Era

The writings of the late Harvard political scientist anticipate America's political and intellectual battles -- and point to the country we may become.

by Carlos Lozada via Washington Post on July 18, 2017

Katharine Hepburn, an iconic tomboy, cocking a gun in 1935.

Tomboys Were a Trend 100 Years Ago, but Mostly to Bring Up the Birth Rate for White Babies

Fear of diminishing broodstock got the gals going outdoors.

by Laura Smith via Timeline on June 21, 2017

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