The Histories of Epidemics in the United States
Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed daily life in the United States.…
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Black Women, Police Violence, and Gentrification
On September 15, six months after Louisville Metro Police Department officers killed Breonna Taylor in…
George Floyd and the End of American Hegemony
An “I can’t breathe” sign in London’s Trafalgar Square. The hashtag #PapuanLivesMatter in Indonesia. Monuments…
Toppling Columbus, Recasting Italian Americans
In response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter demonstrators…
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…