Sarah Churchwell

The fear that overtook us that day in 1988 was unfamiliar to most Americans. Now all too many know how it feels.

“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” declared the man who would be America’s sixteenth president.

The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.

How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.

Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.

On Daniel Okrent's "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America."

If the play holds up a mirror to our moment, it is by registering slavery in a peripheral glance only to look away.

Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.