Capital Punishment and the Battle for America’s Soul
In 1976, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan welcomed the news that after a ten-year moratorium, executions…
Author Daniel LaChance
The Politics of Statehood in Hawai‘i and the Urgency of Non-Statist Decolonization
As I reflect on the 60th anniversary of the United States claiming the Hawaiian Islands…
What’s in the September Issue of the Journal of American History?
The September 2019 issue of The Journal of American History is now available online for subscribers. Included…
Statehood and Other Events: Whales, Alaska Natives, and Perspectives on History
Alaska has been a state for just sixty years. The political events by which the…
Histories of Capital Punishment in the United States
In late July, Attorney General William Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume…
The Cuatro Gatos That Never Were The People’s Voices and the New Puerto Rico
El pueblo habló … — Pedro Roselló Shortly before midnight on July 24, 2019, the…
Performing the Past (and Present and Future) The Social Life of Anniversaries
This piece originally appeared in the November 2014 issue of The American Historian. For more…
Y2K: An American Crisis
As clocks reached 12:00 a.m. on Dec. 31, 1999, in a cascade beginning in the…
What’s in the June Issue of the Journal of American History?
The June 2019 issue of The Journal of American History is now available online for subscribers. Included…
Juneteenth and Beyond: African American Emancipation Celebrations Since 1808
Freedom celebrations are essential to understanding the history, culture, and politics of African Americans. Emancipations…