Michael T. Bertrand is Professor of History at Tennessee State University. This interview is based on his new book, Southern History Remixed: On Rock ’n’ Roll and the Dilemma of Race (University Press of Florida, 2024). JF: What led you […]
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The Author’s Corner with Scott Gac
Scott Gac is Professor of History and American Studies at Trinity College. This interview is based on his new book, Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America (Cambridge University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Born […]
Texas GOP congressman Chip Roy: Democrats want to “end Western civilization” with open borders
Here is Ben Metzner at The New Republic: Texas Republican Representative Chip Roy may have stirred up disunity in the GOP earlier this year with his threats to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, but he’s in lockstep with the rest of his […]
January 6, 2021: The Shakespeare angle
Today at The Washington Post, Meena Venkataramanan has a piece on a letter the January 6th “Stop the Steal” protesters sent to the Folger Shakespeare Library. This is wild. Here is a taste: While insurrectionists were plotting to storm the […]
Trump tonight in New Hampshire: Immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”
Here is CNN: Former President Donald Trump doubled down on language condemned for its ties to White supremacist rhetoric, saying at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Saturday that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” The comments […]
The United Daughters of the Confederacy “seem convinced that anyone who doesn’t like them just doesn’t know who they are.”
Over at The New Republic, Anna Vernarchik has some nice reporting on the current state of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Here is a taste: …the Daughters seem convinced that anyone who doesn’t like them just doesn’t know who […]
The Author’s Corner with Fergus Bordewich
Fergus Bordewich is an independent historian and writer. This interview is based on his new book, Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction (Knopf, 2023). JF: What led you to write Klan War? FB: Many of my […]
White supremacists converge on Eastern Nazarene College
Last month I called your attention to a migrant shelter hosted by Eastern Nazarene College, a Christian college in Quincy, Massachusetts. You can read “Eastern Nazarene College: An Evangelical School Doing Evangelical Things” here. Here is the latest from The […]
The Author’s Corner with Aniko Bodroghkozy
Aniko Bodroghkozy is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. This interview is based on her new book, Making #Charlottesville: Media from Civil Rights to Unite the Right (University of Virginia Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]
Who is Donald Trump’s white supremacist dinner guest?
His name is Nick Fuentes. Here is Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer at the The New York Times: Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night had dinner with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and racist who is one of […]
Confederates at Gettysburg
I was going to take some students in my Civil War America course to Gettysburg this weekend. They were excited about going to the cemetery and reading the Gettysburg Address on November 19, the day it was delivered by Lincoln […]
Slavery was the cause of the American Civil War
Most historians agree with the title of this post. So do many Americans. But there are others who still claim that the Civil War was about something other than slavery. Watch: Yesterday I showed this video to my Civil War […]
White supremacy in American history textbooks
Over at Esquire, Abigail Covington interviews Harvard historian Donald Yacovone on his recent book, Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity. Here is taste: ESQUIRE: You make it very clear from the start that […]
Doug Mastriano’s connection with Gab
What is Gab? It is a right-wing platform used by right-wing extremists. Consider: The shooter in the October 2018 shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue used Gab to announce his murder of 11 people. In 2020, Gab hosted the accounts of […]
The Buffalo shooting in historical context
Historian Chad Williams places the shooting in the larger context of Buffalo history. Here is a taste of his piece at The Washington Post: Historical context is necessary to fully grasp the significance of the Buffalo shooting. White-supremacist terrorism targeting […]
Charlie Kirk: Democrats are letting migrants into the country because they want to diminish and decrease “white demographics in America”
The evangelical nativist Charlie Kirk, a regular visitor to megachurches across the country, “said the quiet part out loud” yesterday on his radio show. Here is a clip: I have posted the video of the entire show below. The conversation […]
No, the guy on “Jeopardy!” was not giving a white supremacist hand gesture
Have you been following this story? Apparently left-wing social media blew-up when it appeared “Jeopardy!” champion Kelly Donohue raised three fingers on his right hand. Watch: Here is Ben Smith at The New York Times on how the members of […]
U.S. Air Force Academy graduate: “Enough about ‘not picking sides.’ The only right position is against white supremacy and extremism.”
Esteban Castellanos is a 2003 graduate of the Air Force Academy. and a member of the Air Force Reserve. Here is a taste of his op-ed at Air Force Times: In late March, the U.S. Air Force Academy held its […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar back-off their Anglo-Saxon caucus proposal
On Saturday we called your attention to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and Paul Gosar’s Anglo-Saxon caucus in the House of Representatives. It now appears that they have backed-off. Here is Allan Smith at NBC News: Two far-right House Republicans linked to a […]
The Western Klan
When we think of the Ku Klux Klan we think about the American South during Reconstruction and the 1920s. But as Kevin Waite informs us in his recent piece at The Atlantic, the Klan also targeted Chinese immigrants in California. […]