The Journal of American History

This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Queering Work: LGBT Labor Histories," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this episode, Lane Windham, Alex Melody Burnett, Ryan Patrick Murphy, and Shay Olmstead continue their important conversation about queer and trans workers, "hauntings" in queer history, and "queerbos...

This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Nursing for the Common Good: Health Activism, Social Justice, and the History of Nursing Work," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this panel, Kara Dixon Vuic, Cory Gatrall, Karissa Haugeberg, and Charissa Threat continue their important contribution to the conference. The...

This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "New Carceral Histories: Legacies of Punishment before the Era of Mass Incarceration," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this panel, Maile Arvin, Abigail Kahn, Halee Robinson, Derek Taira, and Walter Stern continue their important conversation about ethics and violence in...

This Blogcast Episode features Carleigh Beriont's article, "On the Map," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on December 12, 2023. In this episode, Beriont recovers the hidden history of the Marshall Islands, and how this area "has been central to U.S. security and military interests since the Second World War." She explains how the United States nuclear testing and resulting d...

In this episode of the  Journal of American History Podcast  Stephen Andrews speaks with Britain Hopkins about her article, "The Origins of the Student Loan Industry in the United States: Richard Cornuelle, United Student Aid Funds, and the Creation of the Guaranteed Student Loan Program," which appeared in the March 2024 issue of the  Journal of American History.  Through a co...

This Blogcast Episode features Stephen E. Mawdsley's article, "Hesitancy against Hope: Reactions to the First Polio Vaccine," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on January 9, 2024. In this episode, Mawdsley uses the development of the Polio Vaccine to explicate the history public health campaigns and vaccine hesitance in the United States. He shows that "hesitancy and oppositi...

In this episode of the  Journal of American History Podcast  Amy Ransford speaks with Joshua A. McGonagle Altoff about his article, "Managing Settlers, Managing Neighbors: Renarrating  Johnson v. McIntosh  through the History of Piankashaw Community Building," which appeared in the March 2024 issue of the  Journal of American History.  The foundational 1823 Supreme Co...

This Blogcast Episode features Kristin Oberiano's article, "Guåhan and the CHamoru People," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on October 31, 2023. In this episode, Oberiano shows "how the politics of writing history is inextricable from the moments and movements that shaped us." Read the Blog here: https://www.processhistory.org/oberiano-guahan-and-the-chamoru-people/ Music:...

In this episode of the  Journal of American History Podcast  Steven Andrews speaks with Yevan Terrien about his article, "“Baptiste and Marianne’s  Balbásha’ : Enslavement, Freedom, and Belonging in Early New Orleans, 1733–1748," which appeared in the September 2023 issue of the  Journal of American History.  Yevan Terrien’s microhistory of slavery and marronage (slave des...

This Blogcast Episode features Emiliano Aguilar's article, "The Machiavelli of the Mexican American People: Steelworkers, the Catholic Church, and Building Political Power," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on March 28, 2023. In this episode, Aguilar demonstrates the importance of education and union organizing in creating political power in the Latin American neighborhoods...

This Blogcast episode features Avery Dame-Griff's article "Digital Queers: How Computers Transformed LGBTQ Life in the United States," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on June 29, 2023. In this episode, Dame-Griff examines how the internet and digital communication created new ways for LGBTQ individuals to find and create community, and activists to organize in faster and bi...

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