An exciting Soapbox from 8.2 Historians Amanda Cobb-Greetham and Scott Manning Stevens interview curators Kathleen Ash-Milby (@portlandartmuseum.bsky.social), Jordan Poorman Cocker (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art), and Patricia Marroquin Norby (@metmuseum.org) on the “Indigenous turn”

Just dropped: issue 8.2! Linked below.

New on First View! Alex Jacobs at @vanderbilt.edu explores the crisis in American conservatism. He seeks to explain how, after 60 years of successes, right-wing political triumph has come at the cost of any capacity for effective, stabilizing governance. Read the full piece below.

On First View for 8.2 Lorrin Thomas from @ruhistorydept.bsky.social examines the Supreme Court's first decision on affirmative action: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke in 1978. She argues that we can't understand Bakke without including Latino participants. Read more below:

Up on First View! "The Specter of Waste: Incarcerated Bodies, “Healthy” Labor, and the Production of Recreational Forests" by Anaïs Lefèvre. The piece examines how, after WWII, as they faced prison riots and rising concerns about juvenile delinquency, many states set up penal forestry camps.

*New on First View* The Honorable Mention Essay from the 2024 Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips Prize written by Yale PhD candidate Dante LaRiccia. The article examines how Puerto Rican and Palauan activists developed novel environmental critiques and strategies to oppose them. Link below:

New on First View: Unity and Struggle: The Twilight of Maoism in the United States by Kazushi Minami, which follows the fragmentation of U.S. Maoism in the 1970s and the relationship between Mao’s China and its devout followers in the heartland of capitalism. Link below!

My @modamhist.bsky.social article about industrial decline, economic regeneration, and the rise of the “New Liberals” is available to read! ➡️ doi.org/10.1017/mah.... I explore Lowell National Historical Park as a microcosm of the modern Democratic Party’s complex transformation. #USHistory

Ten more days until submissions are due!

Don't forget to submit something for our third annual essay prize competition!

*New on First View!* The first article from 8.2 is “Put Your Money Where the Kids Are”: Mobil Oil, Social Responsibility, and Cultures of Privatization in the 1970s by George Washington University PhD candidate Molly Henderson. Read the article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Read the 2024 Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips prize winning essay from John Miles Brach, titled "Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951–1976." Early career scholars, see below for details on how to submit your own piece for consideration for 2025!

We are excited to announce the third annual Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips Essay Prize Competition. Ph.D. candidates and early-career instructors are welcome to submit! Our deadline is June 15.

From 8.1: the cover article by Julia Guarneri, which explores women's response to attempts by advertisers to target them with specialized "women's pages." Read the full story here" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Candace Sobers' article, "J. William Fulbright, the Contested Legacies of the American Revolution, and the War in Vietnam" explores American responses to the Vietnam War. Read the article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In Issue 8.1, a new research article from Allyson P. Brantley, which examines a contentious, failed unionization drive among 140 Latino cemetery workers in the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles between 1988 and 1991, highlighting the fracturing and remaking of labor-Catholic alliances.

Our new issue features a roundtable on animal history with pieces from Thomas G. Andrews, Andrea Ringer, Daniel Vandersommers, Andrew C. Isenberg, Tyler D. Parry, Charlton W. Yingling, and Kerri Keller Clement (kclement.bsky.social) Links below:

Issue 8.1 has arrived! Link below to read the thought provoking research articles and features from this issue.

*OAH Panel Alert* Join board member @Thomas Andrews for an important panel: State of the Field: U.S. Environmental History" on Saturday, April 5, from 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm. Link here: www.oah.org/conferen...

*OAH Panel Alert* Katherine Benton-Cohen is chairing a panel on Friday, April 4 from 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm that examines how the highly racialized and ethnicized discourse on immigration is related to the transformation of the political economy and state-building since the late nineteenth century.

*OAH Panel Alert* See board member @drashleyfarmer.bsky.social on an important panel: "State of the Field: African American History in the Black Power Era," which will take place on Saturday, April 5, 2025 from 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Link here: www.oah.org/conferen...

*OAH Panel Alert* Board member Lauren Gutterman is a panelist on a discussion of @historydavis.bsky.social's new book Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America. Join five panelists as they discuss the state of the field of the history of sexuality in the United States.

*OAH Panel Alert* Board member @melanimca.bsky.social is a panelist on a panel that analyzes the meanings and consequences of the 2024 Election through various historical perspectives. Attend "The Election of 2024" on Friday, April 4, 2025 from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

*OAH Panel Alert* MAH editor Sarah Snyder and board member @melanimca.bsky.social are on an intriguing panel: "The ‘Ugly American’? Americans Abroad during the Cold War." The panel is on Saturday, April 5, 2025 from 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Link here for more details: www.oah.org/conferen...

OAH is coming up! Modern American History will be there, and we have several board members who will be on panels. Look for Sarah Snyder, Darren Dochuk, and Ella Hadacek if you have questions about submitting to MAH!

We're excited about this new article by John Branch on first view! Check it out!

Article Highlight: @larryglickman.bsky.social's article, "The Dark and Sad Days of Reconstruction,” was Cambridge University Press' 5th most downloaded article in January, and it has the highest altmetric attention score of MAH's articles. Read the article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@brentcebul.bsky.social's 2019 article "Supply-Side Liberalism: Fiscal Crisis, Post-Industrial Policy, and the Rise of the New Democrats" got a callout in a recent article by Jacobin about the pitfalls of neoliberalism. Revisit the MAH Piece here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New Article on First View by Julia Guarneri @cambridgeup.bsky.social Around the turn of the 20th c., U.S. newspapers began to address women in separate sections, hoping to gather a female audience for advertisers. The article uses the women’s page to investigate the rise of ad-subsidized media.

A new WRITER’S STUDIO from issue 7.3. In Aug. 2024, Thomas G. Andrews and Darren Dochuk spoke to Pulitzer Prize winners Beverly Gage and Jefferson Cowie about matters ranging from the mundane to more profound queries about their curiosity, passion for history, and ambitions.

New article from 8.1 on First View! Cindy I-Fen Cheng from @uwmadison.bsky.social enters the debate over the terms “homeless” and “unhoused" in a new Soapbox feature. Read more to find out why she urges US historians to avoid the term "unhoused." www.cambridge.org/co...

Very happy that my article, "F. A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalization of Money" has been published in @modamhist.bsky.social! It covers Hayek's ideas and efforts to denationalize currency, long prior to the advent of cryptocurrency. Many thanks to my editors and anonymous readers

New Article on First View! Brian Rouleau at @tamu.bsky.social examines the role of love-themed comic books in justifying the Korean War to adolescent readers in the U.S. The article offers insight into the popular cultural dimension of a “forgotten war." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Last Reminder | Call for Papers! for Special Issue 2026—The United States’ Semiquincentennial | Due on January 31, 2025 Our July 2026 special issue will focus on themes related to the celebration of the 2026 US Semiquincentennial (250th Anniversary). More details here: www.cambridge.org/co...

What an incredible privilege to see Judy Richardson here on campus last night. Absolute icon. So many things stuck with me, but I awoke with this one in my head: “Education is an act of resistance.”

Read our new VISITOR’S CORNER with Judy Richardson Filmmaker, educator, and activist Judy Richardson has spent over 6 decades helping everyday people place themselves at the center of the Black freedom movement.

A new Soapbox from issue 7.3! Leilah Danielson's piece explores what the Rustin film got wrong about A. J. Muste and why it matters. Read her evaluation here: www.cambridge.org/co...

Checkout this piece in 7.3 from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social history's Whitney McIntosh, whose article demonstrates how Hayek and his libertarian supporters opened a new chapter in the history of the “money question” in the U.S. Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We’ve got a call for papers at @modamhist.bsky.social — write for us! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'm pleased to announce that my article on how the Reconstruction era was remembered and misremembered in the Civil Rights era has just been published in @modamhist.bsky.social. Very grateful to the editors and anonymous readers for their generous help./1 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Delighted to see that my article with Amanda Demmer in Modern American History is officially+completely out Open Access: Normalizing Relations from the Cold War to the Present: Continuing War, Pursuing Peace, & Building Empire | 🗃️ #SHAFR #diplomacy #normalization www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Issue 7.3 just dropped! We are excited to share new research articles and features. Thank you to all of our wonderful authors for their hardwork and historical insight! Link below: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We're saying goodbye to one editorial assistant and welcoming another! A warm thank you to Sean Raming, who has been invaluable for the past 2 years. After working alongside Sean for the past few months, Notre Dame grad student Ella Hadacek @ellahadacek.bsky.social takes over as the new EA!

Call for Papers! *Deadline Extended* Until January 31st, MAH is accepting proposals for a 2026 Special Issue on the US #Semiquincentennial (250th). See this CFP (link below) for details, and send any questions to [email protected] www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Did you get good feedback on a project at #AHA25? Consider reaching out to us about submitting an article to Modern American History!

In an article in the November issue of @modamhist.bsky.social that should be appearing shortly, I briefly discuss the fact that, in 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed an amnesty bill for Jefferson Davis, "restoring the Confederate President to all rights a Reconstruction era Congress took away."

As 2024 comes to a close, make sure you read the most downloaded MAH articles of 2024. www.cambridge.org/co...

Read our new article by Lehigh prof. Emily Pope-Obeda, which looks at how, during the interwar period, the Black press construed deportation as a powerful tool of white supremacy and a threat to Black immigrants and African Americans alike.

@washingtonpost.com's recent piece uses the oldest extant country recording to explore the fraught relationship between race & music. MAH's new Take Three on the banjo provides perspectives from @jakeblount.com @jmthompson.bsky.social @popcultureamerica.bsky.social on the topic in the 20th century

MAH's editors are looking to publish more Photoarticles—a feature essay that presents an original POV supported foremost by visual evidence. We're particuarly interested in considering pieces that use fashion as a source. See link for previously published works! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...