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Chinese immigrants and American immigration officers at Ellis Island.

The Perils of Vilifying Chinese Migrants

As Chinese migrants arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, politicians are reviving old anti-Chinese rhetoric that has done lasting harm.

by Meredith Oyen via Made By History on August 13, 2024

Roll of raffle tickets labeled "National Security Priority"

How Everything Became National Security

And national security became everything.

by Daniel W. Drezner via Foreign Affairs on August 12, 2024

Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson.

Hate Burst Out: Chicago, 1968

It is hard not to figure the 1968 election as inaugurating the cultural and political polarisation of the American electorate so evident today.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via London Review of Books on August 7, 2024

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz at a rally.

How Vice-Presidential Nominees Became 'Attack Dogs'

Vice presidential nominees weren't tasked with flinging mud until the last 40 years.

by Charles J. Holden via Made By History on August 7, 2024

Eyes looking through the stripes on an American flag as if they were window blinds.

How Conspiracy Theory Made America

Americans are seized by conspiracy theories, and as a result, democracy is in peril—so conventional wisdom holds.

by Michael Cuenco via Compact on August 2, 2024

What It Means to ‘Willie Horton’ a Political Candidate

Donald Trump supporters run their version of the original dog-whistle attack ad against Kamala Harris. Here’s the history.

by Beth Schwartzapfel via The Marshall Project on July 31, 2024

J. D. Vance speaking at a campaign rally for Donald Trump.

J. D. Vance Is Summoning the John Birch Society

Far from a novel form of populism, J. D. Vance’s appeals are indistinguishable from the economic vision of the 1970s John Birch Society.

by David Austin Walsh via Jacobin on July 29, 2024

Some attendees of the Republican National Convention hold "Mass Deportation Now" signs on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Trump’s Massive Deportation Plan Echoes Concentration Camp History

Trump’s language about immigrants “poisoning” the U.S. repeats past rhetoric that led to civilian detention camps, with horrific, tragic results.

by Andrea Pitzer via Scientific American on July 23, 2024

Charles Lindbergh addressing a rally of the America First Committee in 1941.

Stop Saying "Isolationist"

It's misleading, invidious, and it obscures what's actually bad and scary about right-wing nationalist foreign policy.

by Tim Barker via Origins of Our Time on July 19, 2024

Malcolm X arrives in New York City in 1964 after a tour of the Middle East.

Malcolm X and the Difficulties of Diplomacy

In 1964, he toured Africa and the Middle East on a journey that would both transform his outlook and reveal the limits of transnational solidarity.

by Alex White via New Lines on July 19, 2024

Barry Goldwater giving a speech at the Republican National Convention.

The Republican National Convention That Shocked the Country

The pulsating anger in San Francisco 60 years ago became the party's animating spirit.

by Charles J. Holden via Made By History on July 17, 2024

Herbert Hoover breaking ground on a model home in front of a crowd.

Home Sweet Home

On the early years of the real estate industry, and the racist effort to convince white Americans to buy single-family homes.

by Adrienne Brown via HNN on June 20, 2024

Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington D.C.

Immigration and Mental Health Collide, Again

Trump's seeming mixup of asylum-seeking refugees with patients in psychiatric institutions stems from a long rhetorical and political tradition.

by Jeremy Peschard via The Abusable Past on June 20, 2024

Frederick Douglas.

What Frederick Douglass Learned from an Irish Antislavery Activist

Frederick Douglass was introduced to the idea of universal human rights after traveling to Ireland and meeting with Irish nationalist leaders.

by Christine Kinealy via The Conversation on June 14, 2024

Ross Perot laughing, surrounded by reporters.

Donald Trump Didn’t Spark Our Current Political Chaos. The ’90s Did.

In ‘When the Clock Broke,’ John Ganz revisits the era of Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot to find the roots of our populist moment.

by Becca Rothfeld via Washington Post on June 13, 2024

James Madison by Gilbert Stewart, 1821.

How the Constitution Unifies the Country

Yuval Levin urges us to take America’s greatest constitutional thinker, James Madison, as our lodestar.

by Marc Landy via Law & Liberty on June 11, 2024

An aerial view of the International Bridge over the in Rio Grande, Laredo, Texas.

The Image of Control

Following the careers of a family of especially corrupt border control officials.

by John Weber via HNN on June 11, 2024

National Guard members deploy near the White House as peaceful protests are scheduled against police brutality and the death of George Floyd, on June 6, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

The Most Dangerous Law in America

The Insurrection Act is a nuclear bomb hidden in the United States code, giving presidents unimaginable emergency power. No President has abused it. Yet.

by Joseph Nunn via Democracy Journal on June 10, 2024

St. Basil's Cathedral spire about to pierce the world like a balloon.

Why Would Anyone Want to Run the World?

The warnings in Cold War history.

by John Lewis Gaddis via Foreign Affairs on June 7, 2024

A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves by Eastman Johnson.

Unapologetically Free: A Personal Declaration of Independence From the Formerly Enslaved

Abolitionist and writer John Swanson Jacobs on reclaiming liberty in a land of unfreedom.

by John Swanson Jacobs, Jonathan D. S. Schroeder via Literary Hub on May 24, 2024

A Modest Proposal

More importantly, our misappropriation of “puritan” has allowed scholars to ignore and the public to misunderstand religion.

by Carla Gardina Pestana via Commonplace on May 21, 2024

‘Brown’ at 70

The rhetorically modest but functionally powerful ruling that ended segregation shouldn’t be misused to forestall other efforts at racial equality.

by Randall Kennedy via The American Prospect on May 17, 2024

Student protesters at Columbia University in April 1968.

Reviving the Language of Empire

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

by Aziz Rana, Nora Caplan-Bricker via Jewish Currents on May 9, 2024

Collage of Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ted Kennedy on the campaign trail.

The Debate Gaffe That Changed American History

And cost Gerald Ford the presidency.

by Jeff Greenfield via Politico Magazine on May 9, 2024

Pope Francis.

Whatever Happened to the Language of Peace?

Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.

by Sohrab Ahmari via New Statesman on May 8, 2024

Pro-Israel counterprotesters hold Israeli flags on the edges of a pro-Palestine encampment at Northeastern University in Boston, April 26, 2024.

The New Anti-Antisemitism

The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.

by Rick Perlstein via The American Prospect on May 8, 2024

Police arresting a protestor at U.T.-Austin.

College Administrators are Falling Into a Tried and True Trap Laid by the Right

Throughout the 60s and 70s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, courts, and police.

by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd via The Conversation on April 26, 2024

Ronald Reagan campaigns in Houston ahead of the Republican Convention in 1976.

How Abortion Took Over the Republican Party

Ronald Reagan proved instrumental to Southerners bringing their cultural conservatism to center stage for the Republican Party.

by Jonathan Bartho via Made By History on April 12, 2024

Woman holding up a pocket-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution.

Conservatives Don’t Have a Monopoly on Originalism

The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America.

by Simon Lazarus via The New Republic on March 29, 2024

Statute of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, with construction hook ready to remove it.

History Shows the Danger of Comparing Trump to Jesus

It’s important to remember why analogies to Jesus should stay out of the political realm. The results are always ugly.

by Laura Brodie via Made By History on March 29, 2024

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