The Historical Foundations of Abundance
Historians are so obsessed with discerning or making new “turns” these days that it may…
Browsing: Books
Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
Andrew Wender Cohen is a Scruggs scholar and associate professor of history at Syracuse University’s…
Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto
What drew you to your topic? This book grew directly out of my activist commitments.…
Jonathan Ned Katz Murdered Me: History and Suicide
Marc Stein is the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of U.S. History at San Francisco…
The Rise of America’s Prison Empire
Robert Perkinson teaches U.S. political history and is chair of American Studies at the University…
Marcia Chatelain: South Side Girls
Marcia Chatelain is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. She received…
Mapping the Cold War
Can you briefly describe your book project? Mapping the Cold War traces the development of…
Podcast with Michael Honey
In the January 2016 installment of the Journal of American History Podcast, the JAH’s Assistant Editor Jessie…
Announcing Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History
Note: this is the final installment in a three-part series on historiography in the class…
Civil Rights Childhood
Katharine Capshaw is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Her newest book…