The Iraq War’s Legacies for Women in Combat
On March 20, 2005, two years to the day after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, Army…
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In Pursuit of Merchant Status: The Migration Strategy of Early Twentieth Chinese Restaurant Owners under Chinese Exclusion
This post originally appeared in the Fall 2022 issue of The American Historian. In 1921,…
The Urban Upwelling
Photo by Transformer18, under Creative Commons 2.0 license. This post originally appeared in the November…
“The New Way”: How American Refugee Policies Changed Hmong Religious Life
This post originally appeared in the November 2018 issue of The American Historian. Paja Thao’s…
Activist Businesses: The New Left’s Surprising Critique of Postwar Consumer Culture
This post originally appeared in the May 2017 issue of The American Historian. “Why does…
The Many Ends of the Vietnam War
April 30, 1975 is commonly understood to be the dramatic endpoint of the Vietnam War.…
How the Old Can Learn from the Young
This post originally appeared in the May 2016 issue of The American Historian. How can the…
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 print.…
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…