Denial, Distraction, Doubt, and Deceit on the Road to Scientific Disinformation
To this day, many in the United States recall the 1950s as the height of…
Author Elena Conis
Remembering America’s Child Labor Crisis and the Women Reformers Who Opposed It
In the last couple of years, Americans have rediscovered child labor. The Nation reported that…
What’s in the September Issue of the Journal of American History?
The September issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in…
Fifty Years of Combahee River Collective
This piece is a response to our call for submissions, Celebrating Combahee at Fifty: Black…
Black Activism & the Jazz Age
This piece is a response to our Call for Submissions: Histories of Political Protest in…
Resisting the Lonely Historian
I long imagined writing as a lonely endeavor. My vision was of an individual bent…
The Peculiar World of American Sheriffs
I didn’t set out to write about sheriffs. I was working on a history of…
What’s in the June Issue of the Journal of American History?
The June issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in…
Fighting Fascism, Writing Novels, and Preserving Radical History
This piece is a response to our call for submissions on U.S. Intervention in Latin America…
Masters of the Air: American Bomber Boys Fight the Good War
Masters of the Air. Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga, Dee Rees, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Tim…