Resisting the Lonely Historian
I long imagined writing as a lonely endeavor. My vision was of an individual bent…
Browsing: Historians
The Peculiar World of American Sheriffs
I didn’t set out to write about sheriffs. I was working on a history of…
Fighting Fascism, Writing Novels, and Preserving Radical History
This piece is a response to our call for submissions on U.S. Intervention in Latin America…
Masters of the Air: American Bomber Boys Fight the Good War
Masters of the Air. Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga, Dee Rees, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Tim…
Historians and the Strange, Fluid World of Nineteenth-Century Politics
In the December 2023 issue of the Journal of American History, Rachel A. Shelden and Erik B.…
Call for Papers: Histories of Sport
In anticipation of the upcoming 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, Process invites proposals and submissions for…
Friday Highlights at OAH 2024
Day two of the 2024 Annual Meeting for the Organization of American Historians brought sunny…
Thursday Highlights at OAH 2024
The 2024 Annual Meeting for the Organization of American Historians opened Thursday. Attendees braved storms…
“An unrelinquished claim and vested interest…”: A Conversation with John David Waiheʻe III, Former Governor of Hawai‘i, on the U.S. Apology to the Hawaiian People
In light of the recent 30th anniversary of the U.S. Apology to the Hawaiian people,…
A Decisive Influence: The American Public’s Role in Financial Regulation
In the twenty-first century, Americans have generally left questions of financial policy to such experts…