Support History, Urge Your Representative to Join the Congressional History Caucus Today
The National Coalition of History (NCH), to which the Organization of American Historians belongs, has…
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Supreme Court Rules on Same-Sex Marriage
In a historic civil rights ruling issued today in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court made marriage a…
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The Size and Scope of the Carceral State
Kelly Lytle Hernández, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson are the contributing editors for…
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Tourism, Terrorism, and the Memory of Slavery in Charleston, South Carolina
Blain Roberts, the author of the book Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty…
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Ferguson, USA: A Historian’s Collision with History, Part Two
Note: this is the second post in a two-part series by Professor Stefan M. Bradley…
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Ferguson, USA: A Historian’s Collision with History, Part One
Stefan M. Bradley is the director of African American Studies Program and an associate professor…
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Announcing the June JAH: “Historians and the Carceral State”
We are pleased to announce the publication of the June 2015 issue of the Journal of…
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Jonathan Zimmerman: Why—and How—I Write Op-eds
Jonathan Zimmerman is a professor of education and history at New York University. He is…
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Thompson and Hernandez: Historians and the Carceral State
June’s special issue of the Journal of American History focuses on “Historians and the Carceral State.” The…
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Teaching the JAH: Emily Remus and “Tippling Ladies”
“In American cities today, at practically any moment, one can easily find women enjoying alcohol…