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Featured Excerpt: Her Lotus Year
The Duchess of Windsor. Attributed to Angela Laviosa. Courtesy of Wikipedia. In Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson, New York Times...
Featured Excerpt: Resist
AUGUST 31, 2006. JENA, LOUISIANA. Example of a hanging tree in Dallas, Texas. Photo taken by Phoebe L. Friedman. In the morning light, three nooses hung ominously from a giant...
On âThe Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure, and the Racialized Geography of the United Statesâ
Nothing motivates me to write as much as anger. My June 2024 Journal of American History article, ââBring Moneyâ: The Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure,...
Who Was the Real Socrates?
Illustration of Socrates, in a basket, based on Aristophanes’s The Clouds. Was Socrates a real person? is one of the most googled questions about perhaps the most important...
Call for Papers: Histories of Aging and Elderly Lives
Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on the elderly in U.S. history. While there is a vast array of histories relating to youth culture, children, and...
Featured Excerpt: “Second Life” from Cabinet of Curiosities
Boundaries of the lost state of Franklin. Wikimedia Public Domain. It’s one of many tales of the founding of America. Settlers from England were exploring more and more of the...
Lebensborn: Bearing Children for Adolf Hitler’s ‘Master Race’
by Adriana Allegri The Lebensborn Naming Ceremony from Master Race by Catrine Clay and Michael Leapman (1995). When I first learned about Hochland Home, the setting for The...