Evangelicals and Immigration: A Conflicted History
Last June, a national outcry followed the Trump administration’s policy to separate children from their…
Author Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen
What’s in the February Issue of The American Historian?
Here’s a quick preview of the newest issue of The American Historian: The February 2019…
“I Love America”: Fundamentalist Responses to World War II
After the Scopes Trial in 1925, fundamentalism seemed to be in decline. Many Americans in…
A Colorblind Campus? White Evangelical Colleges and Black Students in the Era of Civil Rights
Founders Week, 1970, Moody Bible Institute. It was the most important week of the year…
Process Covers Religion and Politics
In the coming weeks, Process will dive into the history of religion and politics in the United…
“A Strictly Business Basis”: Early 20th Century Perspectives on Student Loans
Recently, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion donation to Johns Hopkins University to…
An Index of African American History in the JAH
In honor of Black History Month, we at the Journal of American History are pleased to…
The JAH African American History Index A Word Cloud
In honor of Black History Month, we at the Journal of American History have created…
The Fascist Game: A Conversation on the Origins of the American Modern Right
In this 1936 photo, police officers exhibit the robes and weapons of the Black Legion.…
#MeToo, Networks of Complicity, and the 1920s Klan
Ku Klux Klan paraders, Muncie, Indiana, 1922. Image Courtesy of Ball State University Archives and Special Collections. The public outing of predatory men has changed public discourse about sexual assault. With the…