Chalke Talk

The podcast from the Chalke Valley History Festival
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15. BEHOLD, AMERICA: A HISTORY OF AMERICA FIRST AND THE AMERICAN DREAM

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Professor Sarah Churchwell offers a history of ā€œAmerica First,ā€ one of Trump’s campaign slogans. Although popular wisdom attributes the phrase to Charles Lindbergh and the isolationist ā€œAmerica First Committeeā€ of 1940-1941, the expression has a longer, and darker, history, a story of nativism and the Ku Klux Klan, of ā€œ100 percent Americanismā€ and isolationism, and of a homegrown fascism that America continues to pretend ā€œcan’t happen here.ā€



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