Toward an Environmental History of American Prisons
On a warm night in June 1845, two inmates recently escaped from the newly opened…
Author Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr.
For-Profit Colleges in American History
Donald Trump can claim many firsts as president. He’s the first billionaire president to have…
Televising the Revolution: Turn’s Peggy Shippen Arnold
Not long before her death in 1804, Margaret Shippen Arnold (better known as “Peggy”) lamented…
Slave Consumption in the Old South: A Double-Edged Sword
Crossposted from The American Historian Online. By the Civil War’s last weary winter, Confederate Richmond,…
Labor History and Passenger Outrage in the U.S. Airline Industry
During the Spring of 2017, the U.S. airline industry became the target of widespread public…
It’s History of Capitalism Month at Process
It’s history of capitalism month at Process! Inspired by The American Historian’s May issue on…
Where Infrastructure Takes Us
Infrastructure is both one of our most important political issues, and also one of the…
The Forms of History: The Organization of American Historians 2018 Meeting and the Future of Academic Conferencing
nationThe main activity of the Annual Meeting for historians has changed little since it was…
Reflections on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
In February 2009, Captain Charles Moore of the Al-ga-lita Marine Research Foundation spoke at TED…
Environmental History and the U.S. Survey Course
As April to turns to May and the Earth’s day, week, and month recede, I…