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Propaganda for the World; Propaganda for the Enemy
This piece is a response to our Call for Submissions, Ending the Forgotten War: The Korean War Armistice at Seventy. For…
On “The U.S. Culture Wars Abroad: Liberal-Evangelical Rivalry and Decolonization in Southern Africa, 1968–1994”
The problem of the archive is a well-worn topic for historians. But sometimes the sheer contingency of the historical record—what…
Beyond Miss America 1968: A Feminist History
Alix Kates Shulman Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Photograph copyright Alix Kates Shulman; used…
Why the Portuguese Restoration of 1640 Matters to the History of American Slavery
Where did American slavery come from? Sweeping questions like that rarely yield clear answers, least of all from nuance-loving historians…
Football and Opiates in America Unraveling Dense Histories
In 2016, five years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared opiate-related morbidity and mortality a national…
Tips on Teaching K-12 LGBTQ+ History
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2023 issue of The American Historian. With all of the headlines about Republican-dominated…
Support the Troops: Gender and U.S. Civil-Military Relations During the “War on Terror”
During the early years of the “global war on terror,” the call to “support the troops” was ubiquitous in the…
On “Mobility and Sovereignty: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Immigration Restriction”
In the September 2022 special issue of the Journal of American History, Kevin Kenny’s article, “Mobility and Sovereignty: The Nineteenth-Century…