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• 9/8/19
  

  Trump’s Wall and the Aggrandizement of Despots

  by Walter G. Moss

  Egotistical rulers like Trump often have grandiose architectural plans. Hitler had his “Germania," Mao had his “10 Great Buildings," and Stalin had his never-built Palace of Soviets. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  3/21/19
  

  Citizenship in the Age of Trump

  by Karen J. Greenberg

  Death By a Thousand Cuts

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• 3/10/19
  

  Robinson Crusoe’s Wall

  by Geoffrey Sill

  We can look to history, especially literary and cultural history, to explain the passionate desire of many Americans to build a wall.

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• 2/19/19
  

  “National Security Crisis” or “Power Grab”?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  It’s not the Constitutionality of Trump’s Wall, but Its Morality that Matters

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/15/19
  

  Historian Ana Raquel Minian Interviewed on How Trump's Wall Rhetoric Changes Lives in Mexico

  Why does America detain so many illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in the first place?

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• 1/24/19
  

  What Alexander the Great Can Teach Trump About Compromise

  by Robert Garland

  A light-hearted historical solution to the government shutdown. 

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• SOURCE: Rolling Stone
  1/22/19
  

  Six Historians on Why Trump’s Border Wall Won’t Work

  "The more you build walls, the more the other side becomes foreign and you fear it."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/18/19
  

  The dangerous myth propping up Trump’s wall

  by Melissa J. Gismondi

  The president leverages a savage threat to white women to justify his pet project.

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• SOURCE: Snopes
  Accessed 1/16/19
  

  Snopes: Did Clifford Walker Say at a 1924 KKK Rally That He Would Build a ‘Wall of Steel’ Against Immigrants?

  The quote spread across the Internet, stripped of its context and in meme form, prompting some readers to query whether the quote and its description were real.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/12/19
  

  If Trump declares a national emergency, could Congress or the courts reverse it?

  by Chris Edelson

  If President Trump does declare an emergency, the question is: Will Congress use the power available to it, or will it play the role of passive spectator?

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/13/19
  

  How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall”

  A Timeline of Border Fortification

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• SOURCE: Salon
  1/10/19
  

  Presidential historian Jon Meacham links Donald Trump's border wall rhetoric to Ku Klux Klan

  Trump's televised address was reportedly written by aide Stephen Miller, known for his hardline immigration views.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  1/14/19
  

  President Trump claims a wheel is older than a wall in plea for border wall. Is he right?

  They say ‘a wall is medieval.’ Well, so is a wheel. A wheel is older than a wall," Trump said.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/11/19
  

  This Shutdown Isn’t the First Time the U.S. Government Has Broken Down. The History Doesn't Bode Well for Trump

  by David Kaiser

  Have comparable breakdowns ever happened before? Yes, a few times. The earlier episodes shed some light on what has caused our current crisis, and give us some idea of how it is likely to be resolved.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/10/19
  

  Pancho Villa, prostitutes and spies: The U.S.-Mexico border wall’s wild origins

  President Trump’s visit to the border to demand $5.7 billion for a wall marks another chapter in the boundary’s tortured history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/10/10
  

  The history of U.S. border apprehensions

  Following President Trump’s nationally televised plea to build a border wall, we look at the modern history of the arrest of migrants attempting to enter the United States without authorization.

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• 2/15/19
  

  UPDATED: What Historians Are Saying About Trump's National Emergency and Press Conference

  A curated collection of Tweets and articles from across the web. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1/5/19
  

  No, Trump Cannot Declare an ‘Emergency’ to Build His Wall

  by Bruce Ackerman

  If he did, and used soldiers to build it, they would all be committing a federal crime.

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• Separating Children from Their Parents Is an Anglo-American Tradition

  by Jeremy Seabrook

  We need to face facts.