Henry Ford

By all accounts, young Bill Owens was a natural song-catcher, trawling across Texas in the 1930s, the golden era of American field recording.

If radicalism meant insecurity, and immigration meant radicalism, the government's course was clear.

Why has Michigan continued to draw so many immigrants from the Arab world, creating one of the largest Arab communities outside the Middle East?

Hollywood kept distributing films in Nazi Germany, facing pressure from both the regime and US censors. Some studios resisted, others complied.

Why we pay.

How a cartoon gamine midwifed the graphic novel—and the modern conservative movement.

Tracing the long strange trip of the American Southwest, from military camels to retirees in RVs.

Anti-Hollywood rhetoric often echoed anti-Jewish stereotypes. Carr shows how fears of Jewish “control” shaped debates over movies, culture, and politics.