Tag: immigration nativism

  • Torn 1912 Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall campaign poster on wet cobblestone street

    What If Roosevelt Had Been Killed Outright in Milwaukee?

    #WhatIf Teddy Roosevelt is killed outright in 1912 Milwaukee, and Taft — Cincinnati-born and Over-the-Rhine adjacent — leverages his father’s German-American networks to fracture the Irish Democratic machines at the moment they are least able to protect their own coalition partners.