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Bias Training at Starbucks Is a Reminder That the History of Racism Is About Who Belongs Where by Arica L. Coleman The question of who belongs where is a central component of the history of racism, and many scholars have theorized that this collision of race and space helps to codify the constructs of difference and the Other.

Trump said protesting NFL players ‘shouldn’t be in this country.’ We should take him seriously. by Martha S. Jones Black Americans have been threatened with deportation before. It never ends well.

Impeach Trump? History Counsels Against It by Allen C. Guelzo Many members of Congress in 1868 hoped to remove a president they merely disliked. It didn’t go well.

What Race Is Meghan Markle? What about Sally Hemmings? by Peter Feinman Should We the People classify Americans based on race other than human?

Trump just canceled a high-stakes summit. In 1972, Nixon almost did the same. by Eric Grynaviski Nixon, too, wanted a big diplomatic victory. He wanted to reshape the Cold War through detente, a warm-up in relations with the Soviet Union that would reduce the danger of nuclear war.

How the ‘Watergate Babies’ Broke American Politics by John A. Lawrence They arrived and began opening up Congress. They ended up inadvertently institutionalizing a distinctly partisan and confrontational style that permeates contemporary American politics today.

Nixon got briefed on Watergate by Michael Conway It didn't help him and won't help Trump.

How a child born more than 400 years ago became a symbol of white nationalism by Andrew Lawler Virginia Dare and the myth of American whiteness.

The Radical Supreme Court Decision That America Forgot by Will Stancil In Green v. New Kent County, the Court saw school desegregation as a reparative process—likely the closest thing to reparations that the American judicial system has ever endorsed.

Rewriting history in the People’s Republic of Amnesia and beyond by Louisa Lim History plays an increasingly important legitimising role in China.