John Harris on the Illegal Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
John Harris is a Ph.D. Candidate at Johns Hopkins University. His dissertation is titled, “Yankee…
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Why War Anniversaries Matter (or Don’t)
Andrew Preston teaches American history at Cambridge University, where he is a fellow of Clare…
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Alice Baumgartner on Her March 2015 JAH Article
Alice Baumgartner is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, whose research focuses on the U.S.–Mexico…
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Jon Lauck on the Midwestern History Association
Jon K. Lauck received his Ph.D. in economic history from the University of Iowa and…
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Eran Shalev on Teaching US History in Israel
Eran Shalev (PhD, Johns Hopkins 2005) is Chair of the history department at Haifa University,…
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Geraldo Cadava: Standing on Common Ground
Geraldo Cadava is an Assistant Professor of History and Latina and Latino Studies at Northwestern University.…
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New OAH Distinguished Lecturers for 2015–2016
The OAH welcomes and thanks the following individuals who have accepted appointment to the OAH…
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Ariel Eisenberg on the 1980s NYC Homeless Crisis
Ariel Eisenberg received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December 2014.…
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OAH 2015 Awards
The OAH sponsors and co-sponsors dozens of awards, grants, and fellowships annually. Here are the…
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Tweets from the 2015 Annual Meeting
The 2015 OAH Annual Meeting in St. Louis prompted thousands of tweets from topics ranging from Ferguson to the…