Toppling Columbus, Recasting Italian Americans
In response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter demonstrators…
Author Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra
The Blues of 1919: On History and Poetry
Aristotle warned us about poets. Or, rather, he put historians on notice: by his…
Sleeping Soldiers and the War for the Mind
The language of sleep, dreams and, especially, awakening permeated the radical movements of the post–World…
Votes for Colonized Women
Suffrage scholars have long recognized the de facto exclusion of African American women (and men)…
Histories of Disability Call for Submissions
Thirty years ago year this summer, the Americans with Disabilities Act became law. To observe…
No Syllabus Required: Notes from a Teaching Experiment
Late last summer, an article in the humor blog McSweeney’s titled “I Would Rather Do…
“Financing Dispossession”: A Conversation
In the September 2019 issue of the Journal of American History, Claudio Saunt shows that…
Why Hair Matters
I never intended to write about Afros. It’s true that for well over two decades…
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…