OAH Meetings By Process EditorsApril 8, 2017 Friday Highlights at OAH 2017 The conference day began early with complimentary breakfasts and coffee (not that food has been…
Historians By Process EditorsApril 7, 2017 Thursday at OAH 2017 “On behalf of the Local Resources Committee for OAH 2017, welcome!” write co-chairs Mary Niall…
Public By Process EditorsApril 6, 2017 From the archives… America enters World War I On April 6, 1917, the United States formally entered World War I, joining France, Russia,…
Historians By Rashauna JohnsonApril 5, 2017 Streets and Archives: Slavery and the Spaces of Early New Orleans In summer 2006, not quite one year after the levees broke, I began my study…
Commentary By Jonathan GienappApril 4, 2017 Knowing How vs. Knowing That: Navigating the Past In response to my essay on originalism and history, I am glad that Georgetown Professor…
Programs By Process EditorsApril 4, 2017 Exploring New Orleans History with Digital Tools When the Organization of American Historians convenes in New Orleans this week, participants will no…
Books By Ansley EricksonApril 3, 2017 African American Educational Traditions and the Challenge of Desegregation In the 1940s, Charles Houston and his team of NAACP attorneys took film cameras to…