Robert Chase on the Prisoners’ Rights Movement
Robert T. Chase is an assistant professor of history at Stony Brook University, State University…
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Miroslava Chávez-García: Youth of Color and California’s Carceral State
Miroslava Chávez-García is professor in the Chicana & Chicano Studies Department at the University of…
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Alex Lichtenstein: Flocatex and the Fiscal Limits of Mass Incarceration
Alex Lichtenstein teaches U.S. and South African history at Indiana University, Bloomington. His first book,…
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Seigel: A Field-Changing Special Issue for a Swiftly-Changing Field
Micol Seigel is associate professor of American Studies and History at Indiana University, Bloomington, where…
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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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Timothy Stewart-Winter: Queer Law and Order
Timothy Stewart-Winter is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-Newark. His first book Queer…
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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…
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Alice Baumgartner on Her March 2015 JAH Article
Alice Baumgartner is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, whose research focuses on the U.S.–Mexico…
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Cara Caddoo on Her Dec. 2014 JAH Article
Cara Caddoo is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Indiana University – Bloomington. Her…