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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
2/17/2022

American Antisemitism and Nationalism in the Charlottesville Verdict

by Victoria Saker Woeste

The awarding of $25 million in damages from the organizers of the Unite the Right rally to nine people injured in the violence are not enough of a penalty to stop the political mobilization of antisemitism in the new white nationalist coalition.

SOURCE: The Washington Post
11/12/2019

The key to defeating the far right’s online hate

by Michelle Kelley

“History provides lessons on how to pit popular culture against Internet hate speech and racist propaganda.”

SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
10-9-18

A classicist objects to the classics being used to justify misogyny

In her new book Donna Zuckerberg explains how the Alt-Right have adopted the classics and why.

SOURCE: NYT
1-6-18

The Alt-Right’s Asian Fetish

by Audrea Lim

How the 'Model minority" myth blends with racist ideology.

SOURCE: New Republic
10-25-17

University History Departments Have a Race Problem

by Josephine Livingstone

The alt right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship. What can academics do to stop them?

9-10-17

Lessons from German History after Charlottesville

by Jeffrey Herf

What we do – and do not – have to worry about.

8-13-17

No, Mr. President. This Is Not an Issue with “Many Sides”

by Ed Simon

Once again Donald Trump caters to the white racists who helped elect him.

SOURCE: Salon
12-8-16

Salon suggests Paul Gottfried, "a retired Jewish political historian,” was a founder of the Alt-Right

It was Gottfried who coined the term Alt-Right. (He also came up with Paleoconservative.)

SOURCE: The Conversation
11-23-16

The seeds of the alt-right, America’s emergent right-wing populist movement

by George Michael

How did the movement gain traction in recent years? And now that Trump has won, could the alt-right change the American political landscape?