“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…
Author Max Lewontin
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…
What’s in the December Issue of The Journal of American History?
The December 2018 issue of The Journal of American History is now available online for subscribers. Included are articles by Robert H. Churchill, Jamie L.…
Beyond Miss America 1968: A Feminist History
Alix Kates Shulman Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Photograph…
Protest and Punishment in Rural North Carolina
Longtime inhabitants of Benson and those passing through could not miss the prominent billboard at…
New Nixon and Youth Politics, 1968
This 1968 poster was one of the Young Voters for Nixon’s most popular successes as…
On Display The 1968 San Francisco State Student Strike
San Francisco State University (then San Francisco State College) was uniquely situated to address racial…