domestic terrorism 
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SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
10/30/2020
Exposing the ‘Disguise’: UChicago Historian Kathleen Belew Spotlights the Rising White Power Movement
“I think if people really understood and grappled with the fact that (Oklahoma City) was the work of a widespread terrorist movement that was deeply organized, had people in every region of the country,” she says in the interview, “I think that people would treat it very, very differently."
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SOURCE: ABC News
10/6/2020
Nation’s Deadliest Domestic Terrorist Inspiring New Generation Of Hate-Filled ‘Monsters,’ FBI Records Show
“A mass casualty event like the Oklahoma City bombing is … meant to provoke further violence," noted Kathleen Belew, a University of Chicago historian.
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SOURCE: The Hill
9/22/2020
The Militia Menace
by Tom Mockaitis
The time has come to stop mincing words about militias and other far-right extremist groups. They are at best-armed vigilantes and at worst domestic terrorists acting on behalf of a racist ideology
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/27/19
Democratic candidates are finally talking about domestic terrorism. Here’s why that matters.
by Alaina E. Roberts
When Beto O’Rourke referred to the Tulsa massacre, he was correcting the record on racial violence.
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SOURCE: AHA
Accessed 8/27/19
American Historical Association Releases Statement on Domestic Terrorism, Bigotry, and History
The statement was endorsed by many other scholarly organizations.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
August 4, 2019
The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism
by Kathleen Belew
Attacks like that in El Paso are not an end in themselves. They are a call to arms, toward something much more frightening.
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6/23/19
We Need A Long-Arc Historical Perspective to Understand White Supremacist Extremist Violence.
by Eric V. Tait, Jr.
Much like today, in the early 1980s, people of color and the gains of the civil rights movement were increasingly under attack and many Americans wanted to “turn back the clock to an earlier era.”
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