American identity - AAIHS

‘BlacKkKlansman’ and William Shockley’s Eugenic Agenda

Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman‘ is a gladiatorial depiction of racism as a past returned into the present. In one of many

American nationalism, like all other nationalisms, is an imagined concept of belonging and community. In this regard, it is not

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”

In today’s post, historian Stephen G. Hall, Fellow at the National Humanities Center, interviews Mitch Kachun on his new book First Martyr of

In hindsight, historians of American immigration will be pressed to name the first two decades of the twenty-first century as