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Leo Frank

American factory superintendent and lynching victim (1884–1915)

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Dec 6, 2025
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What specific comments made by Candace Owens sparked criticism from the Jewish community?

Candace Owens drew sustained criticism from Jewish organizations and commentators for a string of remarks that critics say promote antisemitic tropes: she has been accused of Holocaust minimization an...

Jan 16, 2026
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How did D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation and Thomas Dixon’s novel shape the 1915 Klan revival led by William J. Simmons?

D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation and Thomas Dixon Jr.’s novel The Clansman supplied the ideological script, imagery, and a popular soundtrack for William J. Simmons’s 1915 rebirth of the Ku Klux ...

Dec 1, 2025
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How has the historiography of the KKK evolved — what debates do historians have about its origins and influence?

Historians treat the Ku Klux Klan as a multi‑phase phenomenon: an 1865–70 Reconstruction terrorist movement rooted in Southern opposition to black political rights, a mass, nationwide “second Klan” in...

Jan 8, 2026

What specific comments by Candace Owens have drawn criticism regarding antisemitism?

Candace Owens has made a string of public statements and promoted materials that critics say recycle classic antisemitic tropes — from urging audiences to read a debunked 19th‑century antisemitic trac...

Nov 25, 2025

How did 19th- and early 20th-century immigration and urbanization shape antisemitic conspiracy narratives in the U.S.?

Rapid immigration to U.S. cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries intensified nativist and anti‑urban sentiments that reframed older religious anti‑Jewish tropes as modern racial and conspira...