The battle over birthright citizenship is a battle over its exceptions. The 14th Amendment’s first sentence proudly proclaims that “[a]ll persons born . . . in the United States, and subject to the ...
This isn’t Enrigue’s first foray into historical absurdism. His previous novel published in English, You Dreamed of Empires, retells the encounter between the conquistador Hernán Cortés and the Aztec ...
Tucker Carlson raised a barrage of inflammatory and reckless claims about Israel, Evangelical Christians, and the alleged influence of the Israeli government on American churches ...
Always the insightful dramaturg, Stages has set up the usual museum-quality context in the lobby to prepare and frame the ...
In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.
The patriots weaponized Jane McCrea's death to demonize their enemies and paint Indigenous people as uniquely violent ...
In 2013, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes was researching blackface in America at the Library of Congress when she encountered something strange: Various primary sources on the subject were listed as ...