Jeffrey Adler: Less Crime, More Punishment
Jeffrey S. Adler is professor of History and Criminology and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University…
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Timothy Stewart-Winter: Queer Law and Order
Timothy Stewart-Winter is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-Newark. His first book Queer…
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Now Open Access: Rachel Hope Cleves, “The Pre-History of Same-Sex Marriage in America”
To mark the recent Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage in the…
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The Size and Scope of the Carceral State
Kelly Lytle Hernández, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson are the contributing editors for…
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Announcing the June JAH: “Historians and the Carceral State”
We are pleased to announce the publication of the June 2015 issue of the Journal of…
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Thompson and Hernandez: Historians and the Carceral State
June’s special issue of the Journal of American History focuses on “Historians and the Carceral State.” The…
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Teaching the JAH: Emily Remus and “Tippling Ladies”
“In American cities today, at practically any moment, one can easily find women enjoying alcohol…
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Alice Baumgartner on Her March 2015 JAH Article
Alice Baumgartner is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, whose research focuses on the U.S.–Mexico…
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Cara Caddoo on Her Dec. 2014 JAH Article
Cara Caddoo is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Indiana University – Bloomington. Her…
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Podcast with Rachel Hope Cleves
In the most recent Journal of American History Podcast, Ed Linenthal speaks to historian Rachel Hope Cleves…