In the former president’s pitch to voters, historians hear echoes of the nation’s inescapable xenophobic history.

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Woodbridge resident Tom Deignan has written about history for the Washington Post, New York Times and New York Daily News. A contributor to books such as Nine Irish Lives (Algonquin), he teaches at ...

And John Lawrence Sullivan, Tyson rightly understood, had laid the foundations upon which those very traditions had been built. The son of a Kerry father and a Roscommon mother, Sullivan was a ...

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Declining Anglo-Saxon birth rates made eugenicists obsessed with creating strong, healthy white babies. And temperance advocates claimed that alcohol posed a dire threat to this goal — one that ...