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…
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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…
Hoboken is Burning: A Conversation on Gentrification, Arson, and Displacement
American cities in the 1970s and 1980s are usually understood as sites of decline and…
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…
Remembering Race in Virginia
On July 30, 2019, exactly four hundred years after the inaugural meeting of the Virginia…
The End of Three Mile Island
On September 20th of this year, the Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit One nuclear power…