Category: Past and Present
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Political cartoon from Puck about nativism in Congress in 1916. The cartoonist employs the metaphor of a fortress wall to make his point about a proposed literacy test for immigrants.
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As a historian who sometimes teaches about Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I have to give Trump credit for one thing: His constant upending of the broad political consensus that emerged after World War II and the Cold War means that basic historical terms are constantly making it…
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Political cartoon of “Emperor Mussolini” on the cover of Simplicissimus in 1926. The caption reads, “I’ve decided to accept God, but he has to become Italian.” The German here for “accept,” “gelten lassen,” could also be translated as “allow.”
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Link: One of many historians of Nazi Germany weighing in on the significance of Trump’s inauguration
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No really, Laurel Leff wants to know. This isn’t a poltical-rhetorical question but something bigger. What are we to make of the president’s recent nod to Holocaust denial? We need to consider the matter in an open, fearless, and dispassionate way, but how? For those of us who teach and…
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Link: “Today’s Banned Immigrants Are No Different From Our Immigrant Ancestors,” by Tyler Anbinder, AHA Today, February 7, 2017
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YouTube Video: U.S. War Department film showing a young man nearly sucked in by racism and xenophobia until a Hungarian American narrator uses recent history to talk him out of it.
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Link: Interesting comment today by Cameron Blevins
