What’s in the June Issue of the Journal of American History?
The June issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in print.…
Browsing: Civil War
Underage Service, Household Economies, and the Union War Effort
The American Civil War is a remarkably well-documented conflict, especially on the U.S. side, fought…
Richard Wright’s Civil War Cipher
Grandpa “darkly boasted of having killed ‘mo’n mah fair share of them damn rebels’ while…
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…
A Nation Without Borders
Steven Hahn (Ph.D. Yale) is a professor in the Department of History at the University…
Black and White in the Free State of Jones
I’ll confess: I was fully prepared to be disappointed with the recently-released Free State of…
Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths
Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been…
Skill Building through Game Building in a Public History Class
Phillip Payne is a professor of history and department chair at St. Bonaventure University where…
Teaching American History in Brazil
Vitor Izeksohn teaches history at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He received a B.A. in…
Clothing and Material Culture during the Civil War
Sarah Jones Weicksel is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago and a 2015–2016…