Government Power and Rural Resistance in the Arkansas Ozarks
Blake Perkins received his Ph.D. in history from West Virginia University in 2014 and is…
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Carol and the Boundaries of Lesbian History
There is a powerful moment in director Todd Haynes’ lush and moving film Carol that does not…
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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. Inside are articles by…
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Teaching the Unfathomable: Hurricane Katrina and the History of New Orleans
In 2013 Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker published Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, 22…
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Podcast: The Afterlives of a Confederate Archive
In the March 2016 installment of the Journal of American History Podcast, JAH editor Ed Linenthal speaks with Yael Sternhell, Assistant…
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Jeanne Houck reviews Hamilton
[Crossposted from The American Historian Online] Jeanne Houck (Ph.D., NYU) is a public historian and filmmaker…
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First Nature: Deep History in the Early American Midwest
[Robert Morrissey’s full article “The Power of the Ecotone: Bison, Slavery, and the Rise and…
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New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations
[Crossposted from The American Historian Online] Fredrick W. Gibbs is an assistant professor in the History Department…
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Marcia Chatelain: South Side Girls
Marcia Chatelain is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. She received…
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Previewing the February Issue of The American Historian
The February 2016 issue of the American Historian features three compelling essays on “Technology.” Laura…