Political History is Doing AOK
In their New York Times opinion piece, Fredrik Logevall and Kenneth Osgood are too pessimistic about the…
Author Julian Zelizer
Muscular Christianity
Could you briefly describe your project? My project focuses on the history of muscular Christianity…
From the Archives… National Park Service at 100
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the National Park Service. The NPS,…
Native American History is the Answer to Your Coverage Problems
For collegiate or high school history teachers, August is the season of tinkering. With new…
Is it Time to Move on from the 1960s?
Bernard von Bothmer teaches history at the University of San Francisco and Dominican University of California.…
Puerto Rico’s Many Crises: A Neocolonial Tale
The U.S. non-incorporated territory known as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado or…
What’s in the August Issue of The American Historian?
Here’s a quick preview of the newest issue of The American Historian: The August 2016…
Remembering Julian Bond
Julian Bond made history for the first time as a young activist in the 1960s…
Learning from the Legal Culture of Gradual Emancipation, or, Misled by the Thirteenth Amendment
For some historians, the recurrent debates about the relationship of our “Framers” to slavery and…
Peace Corps Fantasies
Can you briefly describe your book? My book is a cultural history of the 1960s…