Organizing the Prisons in the 1960s and 1970s: Part One, Building Movements
Roundtable discussion with Dan Berger, Alan Eladio Gómez, Garrett Felber, Toussaint Losier, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Tony…
Browsing: Research
Imagining Futures: Architecture, Planning, and the Black Power Movement
Brian D. Goldstein’s open-access article, “‘The Search for New Forms’: Black Power and the Making…
From the Archives… September 11, 2001 and the War on Terror
On September 12, 2001, a editorial described the horrific attacks of the previous day as…
What is the State of American Political History?
Fredrik Logevall and Kenneth Osgood’s recent opinion piece, “Why Did We Stop Teaching Political History?”…
What’s in the September Issue of the Journal of American History?
The September issue of the Journal of American History is now available online! This issue features an…
Muscular Christianity
Could you briefly describe your project? My project focuses on the history of muscular Christianity…
Peace Corps Fantasies
Can you briefly describe your book? My book is a cultural history of the 1960s…
Grounds for Dreaming
Can you briefly describe your book? My book Grounds for Dreaming takes readers into the…
Hearing History through the Sounds of Sesame Street
Could you briefly describe your project? I use the sounds of Sesame Street, a children’s…
Teaching the JAH: Robert Michael Morrissey on “The Power of the Ecotone”
“Rethinking early Native American history is a difficult enterprise,” Robert Morrissey argues. “Myths and stereotypes…