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Flirting With Fascism

The National Conservatism Conference in Washington had a very 1930s vibe.

by David Austin Walsh via Jewish Currents on July 24, 2019

Back When American Fascism Was Bad

On the cancelling of Charles Lindbergh.

by Ed Burmila via The Baffler on July 10, 2019

How to Fight 8chan Medievalism—and Why We Must

White supremacists are co-opting the Middle Ages. Fighting back requires us to tell better, fuller stories about the period.

by David M. Perry via Pacific Standard on June 27, 2019

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gives a speech celebrating ADL’s centennial in 2013.

The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems

The ADL's influence on U.S. politics mobilizes against Black and Arab leaders, enforces pro-Israel stances, and capitalizes on anti-hate efforts.

by Emmaia Gelman via Boston Review on May 23, 2019

The St. Louis Roots of 'Make America Great Again'

The American Legion was a forerunner to today's American nationalist organizations.

by Steven P. Miller, Warren Rosenblum via St. Louis Post-Dispatch on May 8, 2019

Why the U.S. Bombed Auschwitz, But Didn't Save the Jews

What did the Roosevelt administration know, and when?

by Rafael Medoff via HNN on March 17, 2019

White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on March 14, 2019

When Nazis Took Manhattan

In 1939, 20,000 American Nazis rallied in New York. It was billed as a "Pro-American" rally, but championed Hitler and fascism.

by Nellie Gilles, Sarah Kate Kramer, Joe Richman via Radio Diaries on February 20, 2019

Donald Trump giving a State of the Union address.

American Uses and Misuses of the Holocaust

Wielding Holocaust memory to make America look good is an American tradition.

by Mari Cohen via Jewish Currents on February 8, 2019

The History Before Us

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?

by Jessica Jacobs via Guernica on January 21, 2019

The Unbelievable Story of the Plot Against George Soros

How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

by Hannes Grassegger via BuzzFeed News on January 20, 2019

Philip Johnson Was Very Nazi

A new biography of the architect shows why it’s hard to ignore the authoritarian characteristics of some of his most celebrated work.

by Armin Rosen via Tablet on December 5, 2018

Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

The Year the Clock Broke

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.

by John Ganz via The Baffler on November 5, 2018

Four Ku Klux Klan members wearing robes and hoods.

The Ku Klux Klan and America’s First "Fake News" Crisis

When the white-supremacist group terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that it even existed.

by Matt Ford via The New Republic on October 30, 2018

How "America First" Ruined the "American Dream"

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

by Sarah Churchwell, Sean Illing via Vox on October 22, 2018

Storefront destruction from the the 1967 Detroit Riots.

A Pioneer of Paranoia

How William Cooper envisioned a web entangling global capitalism, the government, and UFOs, and incubated the politics of conspiracy.

by Colin Dickey via The New Republic on August 28, 2018

The Nuclear Fail

Physicist and writer Leo Szilard was vital to the creation of the atomic bomb. He also did everything he could to prevent its use.

by Emily Harnett via Hazlitt on July 30, 2018

The Globalist

George Soros after the open society.

by Daniel Bessner via n+1 on June 18, 2018

How American Racism Influenced Hitler

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.

by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on April 25, 2018

Voices in Time: The KKK Makes Its Case in Mass Media

The author of "The Second Coming of the KKK" shows an early twentieth-century attempt to go mainstream.

by Linda Gordon via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 12, 2018

An open book.

Periodicals Are Reassessing Their Pasts. It’s Time for Publishers to Do the Same

For decades, book publishers regularly rejected authors on the basis of their race and religion. Their voices deserve to be heard.

by Yuliya Komska via Made By History on March 22, 2018

The Origins of the 'Globalist' Slur

The anti-Semitic seeds of its use were firmly planted 75 years ago.

by Ben Zimmer via The Atlantic on March 14, 2018

Why Tamika Mallory Won’t Condemn Farrakhan

To those outside the black community, the Nation of Islam’s persistent appeal, despite its bigotry, can seem incomprehensible.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on March 11, 2018

How to Build a Segregated City

How can adjacent neighborhoods in the same city be so drastically unequal?

by Colette Shade via Splinter on January 19, 2018

Nazi Punks F**k Off

An oral history of how Black Flag, Bad Brains, and other hardcore acts reclaimed punk from white supremacists.

by Steve Knopper via GQ on January 16, 2018

KKK march in Washington in 1925.

The Second Klan

Linda Gordon’s new book captures how white supremacy has long been part of our political mainstream.

by Kevin M. Kruse via The Nation on December 13, 2017

Ku Klux Klambakes

What does the Klan of the 1920s have to teach us about the resurgence of organized bigotry in the Trump era?

by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on December 7, 2017

The Magic Mountain of Yiddish

Jacob Glatstein’s 1930s Yiddish novel ‘Homecoming at Twilight’ foresaw the coming doom.

by Dara Horn via Tablet on November 13, 2017

The Hollywood Darling Who Tanked His Career to Combat Anti-Semitism

The life and political commitments of screenwriter Ben Hecht.

by Edward D. White via The Paris Review on November 3, 2017

A Night at the Garden

Newly discovered footage of the time 20,000 American Nazis descended upon midtown Manhattan.

by Marshall Curry via Field Of Vision on October 10, 2017

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