Remembering Julian Bond
Julian Bond made history for the first time as a young activist in the 1960s…
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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…
OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program at 35
Annette Windhorn has coordinated the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program since 2001. The OAH Distinguished Lectureship…
Back to the Future: Can Trump Win with Law and Order Like Nixon in 1968?
Michael W. Flamm is professor of history at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is author of…
Public Historians: Trained for Pokémon Go?
Park guides at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, in Springfield, Illinois, are fond of…
The Historical Stage Is Set for a Woman to Be Elected President
As the Democratic Party becomes the first major U.S. political party to nominate a woman…
Grounds for Dreaming
Can you briefly describe your book? My book Grounds for Dreaming takes readers into the…
Suffragette
The movie Suffragette is the first feature film dramatically depicting the monumental struggle for women’s…
Hearing History through the Sounds of Sesame Street
Could you briefly describe your project? I use the sounds of Sesame Street, a children’s…