Sleeping Soldiers and the War for the Mind
The language of sleep, dreams and, especially, awakening permeated the radical movements of the post–World…
Author Franny Nudelman
Votes for Colonized Women
Suffrage scholars have long recognized the de facto exclusion of African American women (and men)…
Histories of Disability Call for Submissions
Thirty years ago year this summer, the Americans with Disabilities Act became law. To observe…
No Syllabus Required: Notes from a Teaching Experiment
Late last summer, an article in the humor blog McSweeney’s titled “I Would Rather Do…
“Financing Dispossession”: A Conversation
In the September 2019 issue of the Journal of American History, Claudio Saunt shows that…
Why Hair Matters
I never intended to write about Afros. It’s true that for well over two decades…
What’s in the March Issue of the Journal of American History?
The March 2020 issue of The Journal of American History is now available online for subscribers. Included are articles by Emma Teitelman,…
Inside the JAH: Species of Sovereignty
“Species of Sovereignty: Native Nationhood, the United States, and International Law, 1783–1795,” might be my…
Not Additive, but Transformative: Women and Gender in the Journal of American History
In honor of Women’s History Month, and as part of the Sex, Suffrage, Solidarities series…
An Index of Women’s History in the JAH
One hundred years ago this August, the General Assembly of Tennessee—the requisite thirty-sixth state—voted to…