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The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant

The link between immigration and crime exists in the imaginations of Americans, and nowhere else.
by Anna Flagg via The Marshall Project on March 30, 2018
Paul Bremmer at a desk, signing his name on a letter.

Paul Bremer, Ski Instructor

Learning to shred with the Bush Administration’s Iraq War fall guy.
by Aaron Gell via Task & Purpose on March 26, 2018
Young men in custody after the Zoot Suit Riots.
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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

‘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
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Blame Games

This exhibit meditates on the theme of blame, exploring who has been deemed responsible for what throughout the course of American history.

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

The Stranger Who Started an Epidemic

A huge expansion of the population of New Orleans created the perfect environment for the spread of yellow fever, and recent immigrants suffered most.
by Anna Faherty via Wellcome Collection on June 15, 2017

Race and Labor in the 1863 New York City Draft Riots

What sparked one of the deadliest insurrections in American history?
by Shannon Luders-Manuel, Albon P Man Jr. via JSTOR Daily on May 4, 2017
Smog seen in Los Angeles in 1943.

Bay of Smokes

Smog first came to Los Angeles suddenly, like a stranded hitchhiker. It was July 8th, 1943, and we were at war.
by Aric Allen via Aricallen.com on May 19, 2016

Donald Trump Isn’t a Fascist; He’s a Media-Savvy Know-Nothing

Donald Trump combines the instincts of a reality-TV star with the politics of a hundred-and-seventy-year-old nativist movement.
by John Cassidy via The New Yorker on December 28, 2015

The Dark Legacy of Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism

The Dearborn Independent, a newspaper Ford owned, regularly supported and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
by A. James Rudin via Washington Post on October 10, 2014
Linda Taylor walks out of a courtroom with her attorney.

The Real Story of Linda Taylor, America’s Original Welfare Queen

In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan villainized a Chicago woman for bilking the government. Her other sins were far worse.
by Josh Levin via Slate on December 19, 2013
Gen. Lew Wallace, circa 1861.

The Incredible Life of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and Author of Ben-Hur

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.
by John Swansburg via Slate on March 26, 2013
Black-and-white portrait of Fidel Castro looking down with his hand near his ear.

I Was With Fidel Castro When JFK Was Assassinated

A first-person account of Fidel Castro during a monumental moment in history.
by Jean Daniel via The New Republic on December 7, 1963
55th Massachusetts marches through Charleston, 1865.
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Elevating the Few

What J.D. Vance excludes from the history of the Civil War and immigration.
by Elizabeth R. Varon via HNN on July 16, 2025

The Heritage of Dylann Roof

Ten years after the Charleston massacre, reverence for the Confederacy that Roof idolized is going strong.
by Elizabeth Robeson via The Nation on June 17, 2025
Political cartoon depicts Roosevelt steering a ship out of a depression while his detractors are rained on.

Welcoming Their Hatred

As Elon Musk and Donald Trump engaged in a campaign of mutually-assured destruction, social media saw record new levels of schadenfreude.
by Kevin M. Kruse via Campaign Trails on June 6, 2025
A racially diverse group of children saying the Pledge of Allegiance while one holds an American flag.

Who Gets to Be an American?

Since the earliest days of the Republic, American citizenship has been contested, subject to the anti-democratic impulses of racism, suspicion, and paranoia.
by Michael Luo via The New Yorker on May 20, 2025
Mexican men in line for work in the Bracero program.
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What the World War II-Era Bracero Program Reveals About U.S. Immigration Debates

Efforts to restrict immigration have long coexisted with — and even reinforced — the nation's economic reliance on Mexican laborers.
via Retro Report on May 9, 2025
Trans activist Sylvia Rivera during her “Y’all better quiet down” speech at an early gay pride rally in New York City, 1973.

Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target? The Answer Involves a Surprising Culprit.

Making a whole group of people this vulnerable does not just happen overnight.
by Zein Murib via Slate on April 7, 2025

The US Used the Alien Enemies Act to Detain Their Families. Now, They are Watching History Repeat

During World War II, the law justified the imprisonment of thousands like Heidi Gurcke Donald.
by Isabela Dias via Mother Jones on March 18, 2025
A cartoon of a group of effeminate men walking together.

Rise and Fall of the ‘Pansy Craze’

On Jazz Age gay culture and its backlash.
by Margaret Vandenburg via Gay And Lesbian Review on January 2, 2025
The edges of two credit cards, prominently displaying the MasterCard and Visa logos.

Our Plastic Obsession

The story of credit cards is the story of industry versus regulators. Industry won.
by Richard Vague via Democracy Journal on December 12, 2024
Chinese laborers engaged to work on the American Transcontinental Railroad system.

America's First Major Immigration Crackdown and the Making and Breaking of the West

Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion contributed to a backlash that led to immigration clampdown.
by Greg Rosalsky via NPR on November 19, 2024
Police officer in front of a playground and school.

The Historical Precedents to Trump’s Attacks on Haitian Immigrants

An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart.
by Kathleen Belew, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on September 18, 2024
The bombing of Baghdad during the US invasion of Iraq, March 21, 2003.

A Terrible Mistake

The long history of confusions, misconceptions, and miscalculations in the relationship between the US and Iraq, from 1979 to 2003.
by Charlie Savage via New York Review of Books on August 29, 2024
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The Little-Known Group Behind Watergate's Dirty Tricks

A college group pioneered the dirty tricks that led to Watergate. Fifty years later, the tactics still poison politics.
by Jonathan van Harmelen via Made By History on August 8, 2024
Lieutenant William Calley leaving court with his attorney George Latimer.

Tracking Down Lieutenant Calley

How I learned the story of the My Lai Massacre.
by Seymour M. Hersh via seymourhersh.substack on August 1, 2024
Nora Kenworthy's book: "Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare".

Crowded Out: The Dark Side Of Crowdfunding Healthcare And Its Historical Precedents

The moral terrain of crowdfunding is fueled by two persistent social ideologies: the dual, and intertwined, myths of meritocracy and the “deserving poor.”
by Nora Kenworthy via HistPhil on July 12, 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
Vice President Joe Biden visits Israel on January 13, 2014.

The Shoah After Gaza

Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and atrocity have been built.
by Pankaj Mishra via London Review of Books on March 21, 2024
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