What’s in the February issue of The American Historian?
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Annual Meeting Roundup Preview of “Reinterpreting the American State: Digital History’s Intervention”
For skeptics, digital history has been long on flash and short on substance. “Yes, but…
Veterans Services at National Archives and Records Administration
We’ve often said that the core mission of the National Archives and Records Administration is…
Annual Meeting Roundup Preview of “State of the Field: Abolition and Emancipation”
When it comes to abolition and emancipation, professional historians and the general public alike have…
A History of Latino and Mexican Boxing
For at least a generation, boxing’s cultural impact has declined in the United States. Seemingly…
Selling American Vigor The Cold War and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness
Starting this May, the FDA is expected to implement a long-delayed component of the Affordable…
Annual Meeting Roundup Preview of "Beyond Good and Evil: New Ways of Thinking about Henry Kissinger"
This panel was inspired by two recent books about Henry Kissinger: the first installment of…
Little Bit Sovereign A Response to Gregory Ablavsky
Gregory Ablavsky, among the leading historians of Federal Indian law in the early republic, does…
Annual Meeting Roundup Preview of "Growing Up and Growing Older in the United States: Age as a Category of Analysis"
How we understand age shapes the form of history. Most often, historians use age as…
“Like a Fart in a Skillet” Trial & Error in Undergraduate Legal History Instruction
In Spring 2014, my second year as assistant professor of history at University of Nebraska,…