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…
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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…
2023 JAH African American History Index
In honor of Black History Month, we at the Journal of American History are pleased to re-release…
What’s in the December Issue of the Journal of American History?
The December issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in…
Histories of Abortion in the United States
The Journal of American History compiled the following index for readers who would like to learn…
What’s in the June Issue of the Journal of American History?
The June issue of the Journal of American History is available online and in…