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Visualization
How America Tried and Failed to Stay White
100 years ago the U.S. tried to limit immigration to White Europeans. Instead, diversity triumphed.Washington Post -
Biography
False Prophet
Meir Kahane's Legacy in Israel and America.Unpopular Front -
Book Review
The Abuses of Prehistory
Beware of theories about human nature based on the study of our earliest ancestors.The New Republic -
Retrieval
The ‘Black Angels’ Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Professional nurses who moved north during the Great Migration worked in New York City’s most contagious sanatorium — and changed the course of public health.The Emancipator -
Argument
Why the Right’s Mythical Version of the Past Dominates When It Comes to Legal “History”
They’re invested in legal education, creating an originalist industrial complex with outsize influence.Slate -
Book Review
Friends and Enemies
Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism.The Nation -
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Imperial Ambitions
Five hundred years of empire building in North America and beyond its borders.
From the HNN Archive
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The Leaders of Tomorrow
What happened in 1970 after Richard Nixon was told, “I doubt that there would be any problem of student demonstrations in Tennessee.” -
No Place to Make a Vote of Thanks
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The U.S. Isn’t the Main Character of This History
Researching the Sandinista Revolution from Nicaraguans’ perspective.