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Daniel Okrent

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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

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

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New York, 1929, men pointing to a sign reading "No Booze Sold Here"

Freedom From Liquor

Ken Burns’ account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering.

by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Aeon on September 6, 2022

American Immigration: A Century of Racism

Discussions of eugenics and other fascistic ideas in American history tend to provoke the defense that they never took root. So why do they keep flowering?

by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on September 12, 2019

Carrie Nation

Carrie Nation Spent the Last Decade of Her Life Violently Destroying Bars. She Had Her Reasons.

Nobody was listening, so she brought some rocks.

by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Slate on September 7, 2021

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