On “The Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure, and the Racialized Geography of the United States”
Nothing motivates me to write as much as anger. My June 2024 Journal of American…
Browsing: Research
Reflections on the Geopolitical Roots of U.S. Student Loan Debt
The emergence of student loan debt in the late 1960s can be situated within a…
Major League Baseball’s Historical Quest to Entice Middle- and Upper-Class Fans to the Park
This piece is a response to our call for submissions, Histories of Sport. For our submission…
Denial, Distraction, Doubt, and Deceit on the Road to Scientific Disinformation
To this day, many in the United States recall the 1950s as the height of…
Remembering America’s Child Labor Crisis and the Women Reformers Who Opposed It
In the last couple of years, Americans have rediscovered child labor. The Nation reported that…
What’s in the September Issue of the Journal of American History?
The September issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in…
Fifty Years of Combahee River Collective
This piece is a response to our call for submissions, Celebrating Combahee at Fifty: Black…
Black Activism & the Jazz Age
This piece is a response to our Call for Submissions: Histories of Political Protest in…
Resisting the Lonely Historian
I long imagined writing as a lonely endeavor. My vision was of an individual bent…
The Peculiar World of American Sheriffs
I didn’t set out to write about sheriffs. I was working on a history of…