With white nationalist forces afoot, look back 100 years to when the Republican and Democratic conventions failed to condemn the flourishing hate group.
Ku Klux Klan
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Ulysses S. Grant’s Forgotten War
The 18th president continued his Civil War battles with an all-out fight against the Ku Klux Klan. The history books barely mention it.
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Desperately Seeking Union
A new biography of Daniel Webster argues that the antebellum statesman forged a civic nationalist vision that has held America together. If only it were true.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Crossing Enemy Lines
The Best of Enemies tells of an unlikely friendship between a civil rights activist and a Ku Klux Klan leader.
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Dukedumb
No doubt about it, David Duke was a hell of a story. For political reporters, the former Klansman’s Louisiana campaigns were relics of the segregationist South, bracing proof that the old Confederacy’s worst instincts are still alive. For high-brow essayists, Duke emerged as a symbol of the struggle between good and evil in the American mind—a […]
