Kathleen Belew

A review of two recent books about white paramilitarism in the wake of the Cold War.

The West's history is full of stories of white Americans taking the law into their own hands to beat back nonwhite populations.

“Very fine people”—fathers and husbands, as well as mothers and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.

The violent rise of white supremacy after the Vietnam War.

Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.

In early America, the soaring ideals behind establishing a new democracy were marked by cycles of progress and backlash.

When all the bad things America did are true, but none of the good things, something is amiss.

Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right.

Militia groups have long used Waco as a rallying cry. But it was never the example of whiteness under siege that they invoke.

On the promises and perils of very recent history.

A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.

There would be no Richard Spencer without Louis Beam.

The KKK was on the march in the 1980s. What strategies worked to stem their rise?