Snake Oil Revisited: Household Medicine and the Condescension of Posterity
The best-remembered snake oil salesman, Clark Stanley, handled live snakes in a turn-of-the-century medicine show.…
Author Susan Strasser
Constitutional Originalism and History
Thanks to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch—a self-identified “originalist”—to the Supreme Court,…
Linking Hunger and Health: The Place of Food Security in the Battle over Healthcare
On the fiftieth anniversary of what became known as “discovery of hunger” in the United…
On Afrocentric History in American Education
Donald Trump was vaguely familiar enough with black history to identify Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman,…
Richard Nixon at the Supreme Court
Fifty years ago, in January 1967, the Supreme Court decided Time, Inc. v. Hill, the…
Education as Activism: The Voter Education Project in the Civil Rights Movement
In May 1962, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) received a grant worth $5,750.00 for…
From the Archives… Women’s History
In a 1990 Journal of American History piece, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich recounted her experiences working…
Betsy DeVos and the History of Homeschooling
Of all of President Donald Trump’s controversial cabinet picks, none has received more public scrutiny…
Symbols and Seeds: A Historical View of the National Arts and Humanities Endowments
In a scene from the recent film “Jackie,” Natalie Portman meticulously recreates First Lady Jacqueline…
What’s in the March Issue of the Journal of American History?
The March issue of the Journal of American History is now online for subscribers. Included are…