The Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, April 7-10, 2016 was a great opportunity for editors and staff from the Press to congregate with people in […]
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Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South awarded at OAH
Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf has won the David Montgomery Award from the Organization of […]
5 reasons to visit us at OAH
If you are headed to the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island during April 7-9 there are a few things you’ll want to be on the […]
Q&A with the editors of Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln’s Country
Ann Dumville and her daughters Jemima, Hephzibah, and Elizabeth were not history makers in the way we traditionally think of such figures. None of these women held high political office […]
Throwbacklist Thursday: Workin’ on the Railroad
Though another state calls itself the Crossroads of America, Illinois deserves the title as much as any of the Lower 48, for here the prairie gathers the railroads and interstates to […]
Q&A with Driven by Fear author Guenter Risse
Guenter B. Risse is a professor emeritus of the history of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He answered some questions about his book Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation […]
Throwbacklist Thursday: Women’s Work
Fifty years after the widespread release of the birth control pill, family planning remains a political and social hot potato. The future scrum for the White House will no doubt […]
Great Recession, Great Depression
From “Women’s Work and Economic Crisis Revisited: Comparing the Great Recession and the Great Depression,” a new essay in Ruth Milkman’s 2016 collection On Gender, Labor, and Inequality. Overall, the […]
Throwbacklist Thursday: Life Is Old There
Appalachia is one of those words that encompasses a universe and leaves each of us to form our own ideas of what it means. For me, to use one example, […]
Flatfooting on YouTube
In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, musician, dancer, and scholar Phil Jamison tells the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. […]
Q&A with Immigrants against the State author Kenyon Zimmer
Kenyon Zimmer is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He answered some questions about his book Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. […]
Throwbacklist Thursday
Supreme Court justices have stirred up controversy since the early days of the Republic, those days of yore when members of the court attended to their duties in gigantic powdered […]