From Roots to The Book of Negroes: Black Slavery and the General Viewing Audience
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is an associate professor of Black Studies and History at the University…
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Teaching American History in Japan
Yasuo Endo is an International Contributing Editor for the Journal of American History. He started to…
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On the Canonization of Junípero Serra
Born and raised in California, Steven W. Hackel is a professor of history at the…
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Abortion in the American Imagination
Karen Weingarten is an Assistant Professor of Queens College, City University of New York. Her…
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Clothing and Material Culture during the Civil War
Sarah Jones Weicksel is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago and a 2015–2016…
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Podcast with Rebecca Jo Plant and Frances Clarke
In the September 2015 installment of the Journal of American History podcast, Ed Linenthal speaks with Rebecca…
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Punk in the Chocolate City: A Review of Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, D.C. (1980–90)
Mike Amezcua is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his…
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Robert Chase on the Prisoners’ Rights Movement
Robert T. Chase is an assistant professor of history at Stony Brook University, State University…
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Letting Go: Reacting to the Past and the Student-Centered Classroom
Montgomery Wolf teaches U.S. History at the University of Georgia. She is completing a manuscript…
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Give Your Students the Chance to Revolt
Amy Curry is a professor of History at Lone Star College–Montgomery in suburban Houston where…