Inside the March Journal of American History
The March 2021 issue of the JAH is now available online for subscribers. Three outstanding…
Browsing: Women
2021 JAH Women’s History Index
In honor of Women’s History Month, we are pleased to reissue the JAH Women’s History…
Black Women, Police Violence, and Gentrification
On September 15, six months after Louisville Metro Police Department officers killed Breonna Taylor in…
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…
Beyond Harriet African American Women's Work in the Underground Railroad
This November, Focus Features will release the anticipated movie Harriet in theaters worldwide. In promoting…
Church Ladies and Grassroots Political Religion
Following the excitement of the 2017 Women’s March, many white suburban women in swing districts…
#MeToo, Networks of Complicity, and the 1920s Klan
Ku Klux Klan paraders, Muncie, Indiana, 1922. Image Courtesy of Ball State University Archives and Special Collections. The public outing of predatory men has changed public discourse about sexual assault. With the…
Beyond Miss America 1968: A Feminist History
Alix Kates Shulman Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Photograph…
Sex, Suffrage, Solidarities: Centennial Reappraisals Call for Papers
The year 2020 marks the centennial anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment. What are our obligations…