Process 2017: The Year in Review
Time Flies. Robert Couse-Baker. Creative Commons License. As 2017 draws to a close, we at…
Browsing: Historians
Gray Areas Building Names and Social Justice in the Pacific Northwest
Oregon State University (OSU) seems far down the list of U.S. colleges and universities that…
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…
What’s in the November issue of The American Historian?
Here’s a quick preview of the newest issue of The American Historian: The November 2017…
Old Sacramento The Town that Gold Built
The Organization of American Historians’ 2018 annual meeting will be held in Sacramento, California. You…
Finding Emily A Story of Historical Recovery
Researching local history can be one of the most vexing and rewarding experiences in a…
Teaching in the Wake of Charlottesville
Charlottesville Candlelight Vigil, Washington, D.C., August 13, 2017. Photo: Ted Eytan. Creative Commons license. …
Sacramento Underground
At first glance Sacramento appears to be just another mid-sized city with new restaurants, a…
FBI Files on Countries Around the World A Large, Untapped Archive
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and possibly also the U.S. National Archives and…