Thinking about Shirley Chisholm during the Current Presidential Primaries
“I ran because someone had to do it first. In this country everybody is supposed…
Author Barbara Winslow
If Trump and Sanders Are Both Populists, What Does Populist Mean?
[Crossposted from The American Historian Online.] Charles Postel is an associate professor of history at San…
Understanding Sacrifice
When Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the orders for D-Day, the course of world history…
Flipping the Narrative on MOOCs in the Nation’s Largest University System
For California State University faculty, the year 2013 might count as our “annus horribilis.” With…
Mapping the Cold War
Can you briefly describe your book project? Mapping the Cold War traces the development of…
Finding its Way: Thoughts on Environmental History
The more people who want to talk about nature, the harder it seems to say…
Podcast with Michael Honey
In the January 2016 installment of the Journal of American History Podcast, the JAH’s Assistant Editor Jessie…
Announcing Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History
Note: this is the final installment in a three-part series on historiography in the class…
Teaching Historiography in High School
Note: Check out the first post in our series on historiography in the classroom here.…
Teaching Historiography: A Panel Report
Note: This is the first post in a three-part series on teaching historiography in the…