From the Archives… National Park Service at 100
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the National Park Service. The NPS,…
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Native American History is the Answer to Your Coverage Problems
For collegiate or high school history teachers, August is the season of tinkering. With new…
Is it Time to Move on from the 1960s?
Bernard von Bothmer teaches history at the University of San Francisco and Dominican University of California.…
Puerto Rico’s Many Crises: A Neocolonial Tale
The U.S. non-incorporated territory known as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado or…
What’s in the August Issue of The American Historian?
Here’s a quick preview of the newest issue of The American Historian: The August 2016…
Remembering Julian Bond
Julian Bond made history for the first time as a young activist in the 1960s…
Learning from the Legal Culture of Gradual Emancipation, or, Misled by the Thirteenth Amendment
For some historians, the recurrent debates about the relationship of our “Framers” to slavery and…
Peace Corps Fantasies
Can you briefly describe your book? My book is a cultural history of the 1960s…
OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program at 35
Annette Windhorn has coordinated the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program since 2001. The OAH Distinguished Lectureship…
Back to the Future: Can Trump Win with Law and Order Like Nixon in 1968?
Michael W. Flamm is professor of history at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is author of…