Adolf Hitler

Rigid racial codes in the early 20th century gained the admiration not only of many American elites, but also of Nazi Germany.

Is a psychological diagnosis a useful way to view racism-or does it merely absolve the racist of blame?

On the eve of World War 2, most Americans opposed granting asylum to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler.

The Dearborn Independent, a newspaper Ford owned, regularly supported and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

Donald Trump’s authoritarian second term has led critics to describe him as a fascist in the mold of Adolf Hitler.

Trump's second administration is 'unprecedented' to some, but historians find parallels in ancient Rome, Nazi Germany, and Latin American dictatorship.

Elon Musk’s defenders were quick to claim that his hand motion was actually an ancient “Roman salute” — but that gesture never existed.

Charles Lindbergh’s ideology prefigured Donald Trump’s—and was rightly disgraced.

On the lengths newspaper publishers took to reach new subscribers — and then drive them away — in the 1930s.

Churchill weaponized her powers of seduction—but Pamela Harriman came into her own when she brought her glamour to Washington.

During the Great Depression, financial elites translated European fascism into an American form that joined high capital with lower middle-class populism.

On Hitler’s attempt to win Americans over to his cause.

Jews in the industry called for the Academy Museum to highlight the men who created the movie business. A voice in my head went, Uh-oh.

In the early nineties, the country turned against the establishment and right-wing populists thrived. A new history reassesses their impact.

Smith understood why so many white Americans, especially white Southerners, struggled to accept that their society was not so far removed from Hitler’s Germany.

An overlooked history of selective policing at Columbia has undermined the safety of those within as well as beyond campus walls.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

On Cormac McCarthy.

In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.

Popular accounts of the Holocaust overlook its irrationality and often disordered violence.