Sidney Mintz’s Long, Sweet Legacy
April Merleaux is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Florida International University.…
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Changing the Discourse on Graduate History Education: Lessons from the Crossroads
Jordan M. Reed is a PhD candidate at Drew University specializing in the authorship of…
Archiving Ohio Valley Ethnohistory
Tell us about the collection, what is it comprised of? The Great Lakes/Ohio Valley Ethnohistory…
What’s in the June issue of the Journal of American History?
The June issue of the Journal of American History is now online for subscribers. Inside are articles by Patricia…
Obama in Hiroshima: A Mandate for Looking Back
On Friday, May 27, 2016, President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima, becoming the first sitting U.S.…
Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton Is Not Throwing Away Its Second Shot
As someone interested enough in American history to read this blog, if you haven’t recently…
Finding Runaway Slaves: Freedom on the Move and the Databasing of Fugitive Slave Advertisements from North American Newspapers
Most historians of chattel slavery looking for detailed information about individual enslaved people have turned…
Podcast: Nina Silber on Reunion and Reconciliation
In the June 2016 installment of the Journal of American History podcast, Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History,…
At NARA: A Different Approach To Civic Education
A resolution introduced in the House of Representatives in 1938 showed how difficult it was…
Reddit Q&A on Roots and American Slavery
This week’s reboot of the miniseries Roots on History may leave you with more questions than answers.…