Jeffrey Adler: Less Crime, More Punishment
Jeffrey S. Adler is professor of History and Criminology and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University…
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Stephen Macekura on Environmentalism and Development
Stephen Macekura is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Indiana University. His first book, Of Limits and…
Kate Brown: Plutopia
Kate Brown lives in Washington, D.C. and is Professor of History at the University of…
The Unrepentant Confederacy and Northern Complicity
Tera W. Hunter, Professor of History and African American Studies at Princeton, is the author…
Timothy Stewart-Winter: Queer Law and Order
Timothy Stewart-Winter is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-Newark. His first book Queer…
Christopher Dixon on Teaching American History in Australia
Christopher Dixon is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Queensland. He completed his BA…
The Journal of American History in the Digital Age: An OAH Panel Report
Over the past two decades, digital tools have transformed the JAH’s publication and distribution processes. While…
Which History in Obergefell v. Hodges?
Nancy F. Cott is Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also…
Now Open Access: Rachel Hope Cleves, “The Pre-History of Same-Sex Marriage in America”
To mark the recent Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage in the…
How does it feel to have one’s work as a historian cited by the Supreme Court? Cool. Very cool. Thank you very much.
Hendrik Hartog is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law…