Teaching Ancient America
Most survey-level American history classes cover one of two periods: the first concluding somewhere in…
Author Matt Jennings
The Making of a Presidential Soul
Patrick Lacroix is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Hampshire. That this is…
Politicizing and Practicing Motherhood: Why We Should Care What Phyllis Schlafly Served her Kids for Breakfast
“I’d like to burn you at the stake,” pioneering feminist Betty Friedan famously spat at…
From the Archives… Reconstruction at 150
The OAH’s ongoing commemoration project on the Civil War at 150 has now wrapped up.…
Why Students Don’t Know Anything about Reconstruction: Three Modern Myths
Since the late 1990s, I have been teaching courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction.…
Remembering Reconstruction: The Memphis Massacre of 1866
We’re a nation that loves our centennials and sesquicentennials. We celebrate wars; we celebrate statehood;…
The Trouble in Nate Parker’s Southampton: The Birth of a Nation, a review
“N—s was too smart fo’ white folks to git ketched. White folks was sharp too,…
OAH/JAAS Japan Residency Program
Madeline Y. Hsu is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at…
New African American History Museum Carries on a Radical Museum Tradition
On a recent fall day at the university where I teach, maintenance crews could be…
OAH Executive Board Joins with Objections to Mexican American Studies Textbook
OAH President Nancy Cott, on behalf of the OAH Executive Board, has joined with other…