Annual Meeting Roundup Preview of "Growing Up and Growing Older in the United States: Age as a Category of Analysis"
How we understand age shapes the form of history. Most often, historians use age as…
Browsing: OAH Meetings
Using Poor Laws to Regulate Race in Providence in the 1820s
In 1825, members of the town council of Providence, Rhode Island, made a public—and unusual—complaint.…
The Work of Freedom
The late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote a 2007 essay in the New York Times in…
A Neighborhood Lost Sacramento’s Japantown
The Organization of American Historians’ 2018 Annual Meeting will be held in Sacramento, California. You…
Old Sacramento The Town that Gold Built
The Organization of American Historians’ 2018 annual meeting will be held in Sacramento, California. You…
Sacramento Underground
At first glance Sacramento appears to be just another mid-sized city with new restaurants, a…
The Forms of History: The Organization of American Historians 2018 Meeting and the Future of Academic Conferencing
nationThe main activity of the Annual Meeting for historians has changed little since it was…
Black Rage at the Organization of American Historians
[This post also appeared at Black Perspectives] The theme of this year’s Organization of American Historians…
“What About Early America?”: Panel Recap
As an Early Americanist, I’ve noticed the relatively few panels that deal with my subject…
Sunday Highlights at OAH 2017
The 2017 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting drew to a close on Sunday with…