Marcia Chatelain: South Side Girls
Marcia Chatelain is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. She received…
Browsing: Research
Where Ends Meet: Suicide and Eugenics in America
Kathleen M. Brian received her Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University. She is currently…
Mapping the Cold War
Can you briefly describe your book project? Mapping the Cold War traces the development of…
Finding its Way: Thoughts on Environmental History
The more people who want to talk about nature, the harder it seems to say…
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…
Race and Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Southern Higher Education
Could you briefly describe your dissertation? My dissertation examines the changing and competing gender ideals…
Civil Rights Childhood
Katharine Capshaw is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Her newest book…
Has Environmental History Lost Its Way?
Road kill. Plywood. Gas Masks. Black soil. These were among the myriad topics covered during…
“The Power of the Ecotone”—now open access
Robert Morrissey’s article “The Power of the Ecotone: Bison, Slavery, and the Rise and Fall…