Michael Luo

Gene Tong, a popular herbal-medicine doctor in Los Angeles, was hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in American history.

Why did a local official, at the turn of the twentieth century, maintain a ledger tracking Chinese residents?

In the gold-rush era, ceremonial greetings swiftly gave way to bigotry and violence.

The surge in violence against Asian-Americans is a reminder that America’s present reality reflects its exclusionary past.

The peculiarities of how American Christianity took shape help explain believers’ vulnerability to conspiratorial thinking and misinformation.

In the 1940s, scholars struggled over truth in reporting, the marketplace of ideas, and the free press. Their deliberations are more relevant than ever.

For Nixon stalwarts on the House Judiciary Committee, defending the President became an inalterable epitaph.