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How American Racism Shaped Nazism

Nazi Germany has closer ties to America and its history of institutionalized racism than some may think.

Remembering Our KKK Past

A dark moment in American history offers lessons for the present.
Civil War re-enactors at the Bentonville Battlefield in Four Oaks, N.C., March 21, 2015.

After Charlottesville, New Shades of Gray in a Changing South

Celebrations of the Confederacy have steadily ebbed, and the recent confrontations will accelerate this retreat among all but the extremists.

The Nazis Were Obsessed With Magic

What can their fascination with the supernatural teach us about life in our own post-truth times?

White Nationalists Flock to Genetic Ancestry Tests. Some Don't Like What They Find

With the rise of spit-in-a-cup genetic testing, white nationalists are turning to science to "prove" their racial identity.

A Look Back at a 1939 Pro-Nazi Rally and the Protesters Who Organized Against It

Seventy-eight years ago, protesters and white supremacists clashed outside of Madison Square Garden.

America’s Dangerously Shallow Understanding of the Holocaust

It’s treated as an all-purpose symbol of evil, not a series of historical events to be reckoned with.

Donald Trump, Jews and the Myth of Race

Until the 1940s, Jews in America were considered a separate race. Their journey to whiteness has important lessons.

What Americans Thought of WWI

What did Americans think of World War I before the US entered the conflict 100 years ago?

Closing Our Doors

In 1939, a refugee ban kept 20,000 Jewish children out of the U.S.

Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports

The president's executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.

We’ve Been Here Before: Historians Annotate and Analyze Immigration Ban's Place in History

Six historians unpack the meaning of President Trump's controversial executive order.

Is Racism a Disease?

Is a psychological diagnosis a useful way to view racism-or does it merely absolve the racist of blame?
Harry Silberstein driving a Paper-Calmenson scrap metal pick-up wagon, ca. 1900. (Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest)
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Scrapping in the Streets

A discussion of the booming 19th-century trade in scrap metal.

Bernie Sanders Bids for Jewish History

The Vermont senator isn’t religious, but a victory in Iowa or New Hampshire would be the first ever for a Jewish presidential candidate.
Louis Farrakhan walking with group

The Charmer

Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests.

History’s True Warning

How our misunderstanding of the Holocaust offers moral cover for the geopolitical disasters of our time.

The Dark Legacy of Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism

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

Ford and the Führer

Ford Motor Company claims its Cologne plant was confiscated by Nazis, but newly discovered documents and correspondence prove otherwise.
A painting by J. M. W. Turner depicting a slave ship throwing its dead into the stormy waters.

The Slave Trade and the Jews

Jews have long been feared as the power behind inexplicable evils. Responsibility for the African slave trade has recently been added to this list of crimes.
Banner of George Washington on a stage with nazi symbols and the American flag

Nazis Rallied at Madison Square Garden

A chilling raw feed of an infamous event. 
Rachel Cockerell’s “Melting Point" tells the story of an exiled people and their effort to find a place to call home.

When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas

While some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine, the Jewish Territorial Organization fixed its hopes on Galveston.
A drawing of cannons being fired at Fort Sumter.

What Can We Learn From the Jewish Debate Over Slavery?

This Passover, American Jews should embrace the fight for “emancipation of all kinds.”
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his aide Roy Cohn.

Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy.
George Kennan

The Enigma of George Kennan

An exploration of the contrast between the supreme confidence of Kennan's policy prescriptions and the perpetual turbulence of his inner life.
Two people wrestling. One wearing blue and the other wearing red.

Understanding the Evolving Culture-War Vernacular

The Right is exploiting a manufactured moral panic.
Frances Perkins and Border Patrol officers.
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The 1930s Case That Sparked a Debate About Deportation

The story Frances Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Labor Secretary, highlights the importance of protecting due process.
Screen projecting the logo for "Facing History and Ourselves."

A Progressive Education Nonprofit’s Silence on Gaza

Facing History & Ourselves, known for its model lessons on genocide, has angered staff and disappointed teachers by refusing to provide resources about Gaza.
U.S. President Donald Trump looks at an executive order in the Oval Office.

Are Trump's Actions 'Unprecedented'? Here's What Seven Historians Say

Trump's second administration is 'unprecedented' to some, but historians find parallels in ancient Rome, Nazi Germany, and Latin American dictatorship.
Henrietta Szold welcoming Jewish refugees from Poland to Palestine, February 1943.

Henrietta Szold & the Return to Zion

Henrietta Szold devoted her life to building a Jewish society in Palestine. But how useful is her ’cultural’ Zionism for Jewish Americans today?

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