Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.
Chris Rasmussen graduated from Grinnell College and received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He is…
Browsing: JAH Authors
Podcast: Nina Silber on Reunion and Reconciliation
In the June 2016 installment of the Journal of American History podcast, Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History,…
Russia and the Frustrated Emotions of George F. Kennan
Note: This is the first of a four-part round table on Frank Costigliola’s March 2016 JAH article…
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…
Suzanne McCormack on Teaching History Online
Suzanne K. McCormack (Ph.D., Boston College) is Associate Professor of History at the Community College…
Welfare and Incarceration in the U.S.
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann is an Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. She received her doctorate…
Robert Chase on the Prisoners’ Rights Movement
Robert T. Chase is an assistant professor of history at Stony Brook University, State University…
Miroslava Chávez-García: Youth of Color and California’s Carceral State
Miroslava Chávez-García is professor in the Chicana & Chicano Studies Department at the University of…
Alex Lichtenstein: Flocatex and the Fiscal Limits of Mass Incarceration
Alex Lichtenstein teaches U.S. and South African history at Indiana University, Bloomington. His first book,…
Seigel: A Field-Changing Special Issue for a Swiftly-Changing Field
Micol Seigel is associate professor of American Studies and History at Indiana University, Bloomington, where…