The Work of Freedom
The late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote a 2007 essay in the New York Times in…
Author Joe W. Trotter Jr. and Kate Haulman
A Neighborhood Lost Sacramento’s Japantown
The Organization of American Historians’ 2018 Annual Meeting will be held in Sacramento, California. You…
What’s in the November issue of The American Historian?
Here’s a quick preview of the newest issue of The American Historian: The November 2017…
Including LGBTQ Americans in Our Nation’s Heritage
National parks share the wonderfully rich and diverse heritage of America. Our parks represent the…
Old Sacramento The Town that Gold Built
The Organization of American Historians’ 2018 annual meeting will be held in Sacramento, California. You…
President Trump and His Times
As a historian interested in contemporary politics, it is impossible to avoid asking how the…
Region, Space, and Place in Queer History
Most queer people do not grow up in queer families or queer communities, and this…
Houston Reviewed A Selected Bibliography
Flooding after Hurricane Harvey. Photograph by Daniel J. Martinez. A joint project of the American…
Houston before and after Harvey
Houston Skyline. Photo by Om. Creative Commons license. Despite being the nation’s fourth largest city…
The Baker Street Vice Ring and the Birth of the Asian American Homo
A number of historians have marked the late nineteenth century as the beginning of U.S.…