Histories of Capital Punishment in the United States
In late July, Attorney General William Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume…
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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…
Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969
This summer, millions of people around the world will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the…
On Heartbeats, Abolitionists, and Abortion Bans
When Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri passed their restrictive abortion laws this month, many were outraged.…
Histories of Abortion in the United States
The Journal of American History has compiled the following index for readers who would like to learn more about…
Why the Portuguese Restoration of 1640 Matters to the History of American Slavery
Where did American slavery come from? Sweeping questions like that rarely yield clear answers, least…