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Victor Berger

When the Sewer Socialists Struggled for Racial Equality

A close examination of the writings of Wisconsin's Victor Berger shows that his views on race changed dramatically over time.
A political cartoon of Stephen Miller separating families with tentacle-like arms.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State

Descended from Jewish immigrants, Stephen Miller's project is to close the country to people like his ancestors.
Police officers on Alabama Street in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stop Cop City’s Deep Roots

For 150 years, Atlanta has endured racist policing that has served the interest of the city’s economic elite. The fight to resist this goes back just as far.
The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.

A Free Black Woman, a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and the Battle Over U.S. History

How Charlottesville’s memorial landscape can help us understand — and combat — the White House’s violent plans to reshape the nation’s public spaces.
A far-right meme featuring Murray Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Ludwig von Mises

From the Cesspool to the Mainstream

New fusionist intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.
Illustration of enslaved people and animals presented to the Pharaoh in ancient Egypt.

Pharaohs in Dixieland – How 19th-Century America Reimagined Egypt to Justify Racism and Slavery

Southern businessmen and thinkers were inspired by ancient Egypt: To them, it served as proof that all great civilizations were sustained by enslaved labor.
Postcard of West Texas State College, 1946.
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The Most Integrated Institution in West Texas

What happened after West Texas State College desegregated its football team in the 1960s.
Sam Francis in front of a Confederate flag.

Only Power Matters

How Samuel Francis wrote the recipe for MAGA.
Medical supplies for the front are piled up at a railway station in Ethiopia, in 1935.

This Black Educator Looked to Conflicts Abroad for Lessons on Fighting Racism at Home

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Spanish Civil War offered Melva L. Price an opportunity to examine the links between racism and fascism.
Cover of "The Citizen: Official Journal of the Citizens' Councils of America."

The White Civility Council

Media focus on Charlie Kirk's presentation style while downplaying what he said and did is reminiscent of 1950s strategies for legitimizing Jim Crow.
Trump's Chipocalypse Now meme, featuring Trump as Lt. Kilgore attacking Chicago with helicopters.

Trump’s ‘Chipocalypse Now’ Meme Sends a Message With Deep Historical Roots

What could be more purgative, more exhilaratingly American to the MAGA base than avenging the nation with racial warfare?
Eric Schmitt

The Schmittian Enemy

What's up at the NatC Conference.
Black soldiers and well-dressed women walking proudly in a military camp.

Chocolate City

Right after slavery ended in the United States, thousands of Black people, formerly enslaved by white slave holders in the South, flooded Washington, DC.
Art of the Radio Free Dixie Banner

Radio Free Dixie: A Revolutionary Cultural Institution

Sixty-four years after Radio Free Dixie first aired, the show is still a shining example of a truly revolutionary cultural institution.
American Progress painting by John Gast

Homeland Security’s Genocidal Aesthetics

By posting paintings like “American Progress,” the DHS signals its white supremacist beliefs.
Frederic Remington painting of cowboys galloping through the desert, firing guns over their shoulders at their pursuers.

“Lord, Teach My Hands To War, My Fingers To Fight”

The cowboy apocalypse and American gun fandom.
JD Vance

J.D. Vance's Anti-Declaration

Truths self-evident no more.
Alligator

Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators?

Long before the new detention facility in Florida, the reptile has featured in the fantasies of Southern racists.
Five men sharing a meal in Qing dynasty China.

Splitting Hairs

Chinese immigrants, the queue, and the boundaries of political citizenship.
A throng of Trump supporters, some in colonial garb, march through Washington D.C.

The 19th-Century Precursors to the Crises of Trump’s America

Revisiting history shows that violence and constitutional disputes are nothing new in US politics.

The Heritage of Dylann Roof

Ten years after the Charleston massacre, reverence for the Confederacy that Roof idolized is going strong.
Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat members of Congress wearing kente cloth and kneeing in the capitol building.

Blinded by Righteous Outrage

From the 1994 Crime Act to Trump 2.0.
Woodrow Wilson and a panel of red stars.

Surviving Bad Presidents

What the Constitution asks of us.
A National Police Week ceremony.

The Jim Crow Origins of National Police Week

Police brutality and corruption are painful realities. So are officers who die performing their duty. But the memorial in Washington fails to distinguish them.
Chinese migrants wrapped in blankets on a beach, from the cover of "Camp of the Saints."
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Mutant Capitalism

How the dystopian visions of the nativist right are in keeping with a long tradition of neoliberal ideology.
KKK members parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., on August 8, 1925.

When the KKK Came to D.C.

Revisiting a 1925 march through the eyes of Black newspapers.
Slave auction in the United States.

How a Group of 19th-Century Historians Helped Relativize the Violent Legacy of Slavery

On the scholarship and intellectual legacies of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Dunning and other academics.
Children peering through the fence around the white community near Johannesburg, South Africa in 1973.

American Conservatism's Home Grown Defenses of Apartheid

A long and ugly history.
Herbert Spencer

The Man Who Believed in Nothing - Part II

Spencerism in America.
African American boy watches a parade of white people from a distance.

The Great Resegregation

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil rights movement.

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