Thursday Highlights at OAH 2023
Thursday marked the opening of the 2023 Annual Meeting for the Organization of American Historians.…
Browsing: Historians
Life Goes to Vietnam
Perhaps more than any other publication, the Life magazine that went to war in the…
The Machiavelli of the Mexican American People: Steelworkers, the Catholic Church, and Building Political Power
Robert Segovia (left) instructing class. Emerito Torres and Agapito Cruz (at chalkboard). Photo courtesy of…
An Archive of Anticolonialism and State Surveillance: Tracing Early South Asian American History
In September 2012 in Stockton, California, the gurdwara, a house of worship for people of…
The Reports of Leonora Barry, Knight of Labor: Chronicling Women Workers in the Gilded Age
This piece is a response to our recent Call for Submissions: Histories of Labor in…
The Liberal Party of New York and Independent Labor Politics
This piece is a response to our recent Call for Submissions: Histories of Labor in…
On “Mobility and Sovereignty: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Immigration Restriction”
In the September 2022 special issue of the Journal of American History, Kevin Kenny’s article,…
“One Can Sense a New Wave of Pro-life Activism Coming from College Campuses”: Anti-Abortion “Rescues” and Youth Activism in the 1990s Midwest
An anti-abortion activist smashes a pro-choice poster at a rally on the University of Wisconsin-Madison…
Richard Wright’s Civil War Cipher
Grandpa “darkly boasted of having killed ‘mo’n mah fair share of them damn rebels’ while…
Call for Submissions: Roe v. Wade, Reflecting on Fifty Years of the Battle over Reproductive Rights
Fifty years ago this January, Roe v. Wade became law. Just months before this anniversary,…