Call for Submissions: Histories of Political Protest in the United States
Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on protests in U.S. history. We…
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Support the Troops: Gender and U.S. Civil-Military Relations During the “War on Terror”
During the early years of the “global war on terror,” the call to “support the…
American History as North American and African Diaspora History
My JAH article “Bridging Borders,” much like my book Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a…
Propaganda for the World; Propaganda for the Enemy
This piece is a response to our Call for Submissions, Ending the Forgotten War: The…
Shock and Awe 20 Years Later: The Iraq War in the History of U.S. Empire
The twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War provides an important opportunity to pierce the fog…
Mapping the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act
Digital history projects not only contribute to scholarly debates by approaching familiar questions from new…
The Iraq War and the Idea of Totalitarianism
U.S. President George W. Bush (at podium) discusses his plan for peace in the Middle…
Call for Submissions: Pacific Islander Histories
Hui Aloha ʻĀina o Na Wahine or the Hawaiian Patriotic League for Women, which petitioned…
Employer Organizing: The Importance of Hobnobbing
As depicted in this cartoon from Square Deal, a magazine published by the Citizens’ Industrial…
“Free Our Siblings, Free Ourselves:” Historicizing Trans Activism in the U.S., 1952–1992
This article originally appeared in the May 2019 issue of The American Historian. Recent years…