The Art of Chatting
Hajni G. Selby is Director of Meetings for the Organization of American Historians. The new…
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The Rise of America’s Prison Empire
Robert Perkinson teaches U.S. political history and is chair of American Studies at the University…
LGBTQ History at the 2016 OAH Annual Meeting
The OAH 2016 Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island features an array of sessions, tours,…
Government Power and Rural Resistance in the Arkansas Ozarks
Blake Perkins received his Ph.D. in history from West Virginia University in 2014 and is…
Carol and the Boundaries of Lesbian History
There is a powerful moment in director Todd Haynes’ lush and moving film Carol that does not…
What’s in the March issue of The Journal of American History?
The March issue of the Journal of American History is now online for subscribers. Inside are articles by…
Teaching the Unfathomable: Hurricane Katrina and the History of New Orleans
In 2013 Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker published Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, 22…
Podcast: The Afterlives of a Confederate Archive
In the March 2016 installment of the Journal of American History Podcast, JAH editor Ed Linenthal speaks with Yael Sternhell, Assistant…
Jeanne Houck reviews Hamilton
[Crossposted from The American Historian Online] Jeanne Houck (Ph.D., NYU) is a public historian and filmmaker…
First Nature: Deep History in the Early American Midwest
[Robert Morrissey’s full article “The Power of the Ecotone: Bison, Slavery, and the Rise and…