Why Hair Matters
I never intended to write about Afros. It’s true that for well over two decades…
Browsing: Research
What’s in the March Issue of the Journal of American History?
The March 2020 issue of The Journal of American History is now available online for subscribers. Included are articles by Emma Teitelman,…
Inside the JAH: Species of Sovereignty
“Species of Sovereignty: Native Nationhood, the United States, and International Law, 1783–1795,” might be my…
Not Additive, but Transformative: Women and Gender in the Journal of American History
In honor of Women’s History Month, and as part of the Sex, Suffrage, Solidarities series…
An Index of Women’s History in the JAH
One hundred years ago this August, the General Assembly of Tennessee—the requisite thirty-sixth state—voted to…
Black Power, American Democracy, and Dreams of Citizenship
In honor of Black History Month, we at the Journal of American History are pleased…
Beyond Big Stick: Elihu Root’s visit to Rio de Janeiro (1906)
“It is on account of the desire of the American people to exhibit their friendship…
Presidential Misconduct, Historians, and History
Forty-five years ago, I was a member of the history faculty at Princeton. At that…
What’s in the December Issue of the Journal of American History?
The December 2019 issue of The Journal of American History is now available online for…
Rethinking Global Inequality Venezuela and the Rise and Fall of the New International Economic Order
Explanations for Venezuela’s descent into dictatorship and humanitarian crisis usually begin in 1973, when OPEC…