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…
Browsing: Historians
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Process 2017: The Year in Review
Time Flies. Robert Couse-Baker. Creative Commons License. As 2017 draws to a close, we at…
Gray Areas Building Names and Social Justice in the Pacific Northwest
Oregon State University (OSU) seems far down the list of U.S. colleges and universities that…
The Work of Freedom
The late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote a 2007 essay in the New York Times in…
A Neighborhood Lost Sacramento’s Japantown
The Organization of American Historians’ 2018 Annual Meeting will be held in Sacramento, California. You…