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The Origins of an Early School-to-Deportation Pipeline

Appeals to childhood innocence helped enshrine undocumented kids’ access to education. But this has also inadvertently reinforced criminalization.
by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez via NACLA on November 6, 2020

I Asked 5 Fascism Experts Whether Donald Trump Is a Fascist.

The verdict was unanimous.
by Dylan Matthews via Vox on October 30, 2020
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Night Terrors

The creator of ‘The Twilight Zone’ dramatized isolation and fear but still believed in the best of humanity.
by Andrew Delbanco via New York Review of Books on October 29, 2020

The Return of American Fascism

How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.
by Sarah Churchwell via New Statesman on September 2, 2020
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Pandemic Syllabus

Disease has never been merely a biological phenomenon. Instead, all illnesses—including COVID-19—are social problems for humans to solve.
by David S. Barnes, Merlin Chowkwanyun, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan via Public Books on July 13, 2020
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Blood and Vanishing Topsoil

“We’re the virus.” So read a tweet in March praising reports of less pollution in countries under COVID-19 lockdown. By mid-April, it had nearly 300,000 likes.
by Alex Amend via Political Research Associates on July 9, 2020
Still from a 1950s animated WHO film featuring a drawing of the globe and an hourglass pointing toward Egypt.

Of Plagues and Papers: COVID-19, the Media, and the Construction of American Disease History

The different ways news media approaches pandemic reporting.
by Abigail Shelton via Clio and the Contemporary on May 1, 2020
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President Trump’s Immigration Suspension Has Nothing to Do With Coronavirus

Restrictionists have long sought to cut U.S. immigration — to zero.
by Carly Goodman via Made By History on April 22, 2020
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When Chinese Americans Were Blamed for 19th-Century Epidemics, They Built Their Own Hospital

The Chinese Hospital in San Francisco is still one-of-a-kind.
by Laureen Hom, Claire Wang via Atlas Obscura on April 13, 2020
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The Other Pandemic

In addition to COVID-19, another pandemic is preying upon the human spirit, nourished by a vulgar bigotry that has gone viral.
by Alan M. Kraut via HNN on April 12, 2020
New Yorkers including Hasidic Jews walk by an outdoor tent erected as a waiting area for an urgent care clinic.
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Deep Political Fissures May Worsen the Coronavirus Outbreak

If partisans see problems and potential solutions through a political lens, it will weaken our response.
by Jordan E. Taylor via Made By History on March 29, 2020
Trump speech script with "Corona" crossed out and changed to "Chinese" Virus.
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Stop Calling Covid-19 a Foreign Virus

Medical xenophobia has dangerous ramifications.
by Mark A. Goldberg via Made By History on March 26, 2020

“The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming”

It’s hardly a secret, but, for a land that bills itself as a land of freedom and opportunity, America can be inhospitable to just about anyone.
by Olivia Rutigliano via Public Books on March 12, 2020

California to Apologize Officially for Mistreating Japanese Americans

Nearly 60 years after FDR authorized the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, California plans to apologize for its role.
by Gustavo Arellano via Los Angeles Times on February 16, 2020
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How Nazism’s Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

On the growing tide of racial animosity in 1930s Los Angeles.
by Donna Rifkind via Literary Hub on February 7, 2020

How Nativism Went Mainstream

Three decades ago, California was the launchpad for a virulent strain of anti-immigrant politics that soon spread nationwide.
by Daniel Denvir via Jacobin on February 1, 2020
Abortion advertisement in the National Police Gazette, 1847.

“Female Monthly Pills” and the Coded Language of Abortion Before Roe

Our future might look much like our past, with pills as a major part of abortion access—and an obsessive target for abortion opponents.
by Melissa Gira Grant via The New Republic on January 22, 2020
A crowd at an Industrial Workers of the World rally in New York in 1914.
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Why the Massacre at Centralia 100 Years Ago is Critically Important Today

Working-class radicalism once transcended nativist division — and can do so again.
by Steven C. Beda via Made By History on November 9, 2019
Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump.
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The Rudy Giuliani of Today is Just the Same Old Rudy

Giuliani’s old playbook of engaging in the politics of white grievance fits perfectly with his role as an unofficial aide to President Trump.
by Pedro Regalado via Made By History on October 23, 2019
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When New Yorkers Burned Down a Quarantine Hospital

On September 1st, 1858, a mob stormed the New York Marine Hospital in Staten Island, and set fire to the building.
by Matthew Wills, Kathryn Stephenson via JSTOR Daily on September 19, 2019

White Power

A review of two recent books about white paramilitarism in the wake of the Cold War.
by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on August 1, 2019

Behind Trump’s ‘Go Back’ Demand: A Long History of Rejecting ‘Different’ Americans

From Germans and Irish to blacks and Jews, new Americans often have been told to “go home.”
by Marc Fisher via Washington Post on July 15, 2019

The False Narratives of the Fall of Rome Mapped Onto America

Gravely inaccurate 19th-century depictions of the destruction of Rome are used to illustrate parallels between Rome and the U.S.
by Sarah E. Bond via Hyperallergic on July 3, 2019

The “Star-Spangled Banner” Hysteria of 1917

The Boston Symphony’s refusal to play the national anthem in its one concerts triggered a xenophobic panic that led an arrest.
by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on July 2, 2019
Immigrant women at Ellis Island.

A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth Century

A century ago, the invocation of science was key to making Americans believe that newcomers were inferior.
by Daniel Okrent, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on May 16, 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
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What We Get Wrong About the “Poor Huddled Masses”

We can’t fix our immigration policy without understanding its history.
by Christopher F. Petrella via Made By History on December 18, 2018
Charles Lindbergh addresses the America First Committee in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1941.

Loaded Phrases

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.
by Kevin M. Kruse via The Nation on November 21, 2018
Woodrow Wilson speaking to Congress.
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We’re Still Haunted by Our Failure to Grapple with the Dark Side of World War I

Changes wrought by the war still shape America today.
by Christopher McKnight Nichols via Made By History on November 11, 2018
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Oregon’s Racist Past

Until the mid-20th century, Oregon was perhaps the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.
by Linda Gordon via Longreads on July 12, 2018
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