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…
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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.…
Protesting the 1980 Moscow “Olympics of Oppression”
This piece is a response to our Call for Submissions: Histories of Political Protest in…
The Hidden U.S. Experiments in Guatemala
This piece is part of Process‘s series on U.S. intervention in Latin America. If you…
What’s in the March Issue of the Journal of American History?
The March issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in…
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…
2024 JAH Women’s History Index
In honor of Women’s History Month, we are pleased to reissue the JAH Women’s History…
Imperial Feasting: Representations of Food and Consumption in the Political Cartoons of the Spanish-American War of 1898
This piece is part of Process’s series on U.S. intervention in Latin America. If you…
2024 JAH African American History Index
In honor of Black History Month, we at the Journal of American History are pleased to…
On “The U.S. Culture Wars Abroad: Liberal-Evangelical Rivalry and Decolonization in Southern Africa, 1968–1994”
The problem of the archive is a well-worn topic for historians. But sometimes the sheer…