OAH Meetings By OAH BlogJanuary 22, 2018 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…
Commentary By Gabriel Loiacono January 11, 2018 Using Poor Laws to Regulate Race in Providence in the 1820s In 1825, members of the town council of Providence, Rhode Island, made a public—and unusual—complaint.…
Historians By Jeffrey DymNovember 16, 2017 A Neighborhood Lost Sacramento’s Japantown The Organization of American Historians’ 2018 Annual Meeting will be held in Sacramento, California. You…
Historians By Tracy Huddleson November 7, 2017 Old Sacramento The Town that Gold Built The Organization of American Historians’ 2018 annual meeting will be held in Sacramento, California. You…
Historians By Meagan OlsonSeptember 25, 2017 Sacramento Underground At first glance Sacramento appears to be just another mid-sized city with new restaurants, a…
Historians By Edward L. AyersJune 1, 2017 The Forms of History: The Organization of American Historians 2018 Meeting and the Future of Academic Conferencing nationThe main activity of the Annual Meeting for historians has changed little since it was…