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Black Activism & the Jazz Age
This piece is a response to our Call for Submissions: Histories of Political Protest in the U.S. For our submission guidelines, click here. While the literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance are correctly celebrated as intellectuals and activists, jazz musicians of...
Resisting the Lonely Historian
I long imagined writing as a lonely endeavor. My vision was of an individual bent over a notebook, solitary in some winged armchair, in a room quiet save for the gasps of a dying fire. As an undergraduate, I found friends who shared my habits of pouring over fantasy...
Pat Nixon and “Panda Diplomacy”
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The Peculiar World of American Sheriffs
I didnât set out to write about sheriffs. I was working on a history of a 1933 murder that began with the beating, robbery, and death of a white shopkeeper in the tiny town of Pompano in Broward County, Florida, and ended with the 1940 United States Supreme Court...
The Decade in Southern History that (Almost) No One is Talking About
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Uncovering Stories in Small Archives
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Butch Gets Busted
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Adventure, Shipwrecks, and the History of the World
David Gibbins’s day job is anything but normal. Gibbins has worked in underwater archaeology all his professional life and is currently a world authority on ancient shipwrecks and sunken cities. He has led numerous expeditions to investigate underwater sites in the...
John Colter: The First Mountain Man?
One of the joys of researching and writing (with Bob Drury) Throne of Grace was discovering the crucial role mountain men played in America’s westward expansion. They were the tip of the spear of the migration of mostly white people of European descent into the...
Army Rangers on D-Day
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The Legendary Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo
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The Way to Santa Fe
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Fighting Fascism, Writing Novels, and Preserving Radical History
This piece is a response to our call for submissions on U.S. Intervention in Latin America and on Histories of Political Protest in the U.S. For our submission guidelines, click here. In late 1980, mere weeks after Ronald Reaganâs election as President, a...
Like Father, Like Son: From Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan
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Masters of the Air: American Bomber Boys Fight the Good War
Masters of the Air. Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga, Dee Rees, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Tim Van Patten. Prod. Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, and Steven Spielberg. Amblin Television and Apple Studios, 2024. Streaming. Telling the story of the World War II-era United States Eighth...
Tracking Jedediah Smith
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Historians and the Strange, Fluid World of Nineteenth-Century Politics
In the December 2023 issue of the Journal of American History, Rachel A. Shelden and Erik B. Alexander argue that our understanding of nineteenth-century politics has been hindered by a framework known as the party system model, which offers a view of parties as...