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(Right here is the place to enter your email address, rather than at the top of the page.)- Benjamin F. Alexander teaches American History and Government at the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn, and holds a PhD in History from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. He is the author of The New Deal's Forest Army: How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked (JHU Press, 2018) and Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age (JHU Press, 2015), both of which can be ordered directly from the Hopkins Press website at a 30% discount with the code HTWN. He resides in Bloomfield, NJ, just outside of New York City.
bfalexander@citytech.cuny.edu
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Immigrants and Refugees as Contaminants: It Didn’t Start with Trump
Time and again, the United States has been on the wrong side of history when it comes to admission of refugees in times of war or genocide. For several years in a row in the mid-1930s, American consular officials turned … Continue reading
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