Lifting the Redwood Curtain
Could you briefly describe your dissertation? My dissertation examines the history leading up to the…
Browsing: Research
Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto
What drew you to your topic? This book grew directly out of my activist commitments.…
JAH Articles Open for Junto March Madness
Every spring the history blog The Junto holds a March Madness tournament exploring sources for understanding…
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…
Government Power and Rural Resistance in the Arkansas Ozarks
Blake Perkins received his Ph.D. in history from West Virginia University in 2014 and is…
What’s in the March issue of The Journal of American History?
The March issue of the Journal of American History is now online for subscribers. Inside are articles by…
Podcast: The Afterlives of a Confederate Archive
In the March 2016 installment of the Journal of American History Podcast, JAH editor Ed Linenthal speaks with Yael Sternhell, Assistant…
First Nature: Deep History in the Early American Midwest
[Robert Morrissey’s full article “The Power of the Ecotone: Bison, Slavery, and the Rise and…
New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations
[Crossposted from The American Historian Online] Fredrick W. Gibbs is an assistant professor in the History Department…