Modern American History
News and insights from the journal Modern American History, devoted to all aspects of American history since the 1890s.
- Interested in learning more about how curators are bringing the history of Indigenous peoples to the public? Historians Amanda Cobb-Greetham and Scott Manning Stevens interview curators Kathleen Ash-Milby, Jordan Poorman Cocker, and Patricia Marroquin Norby on Indigenous history in museums
- A new "Into the Stacks" on First View. Paige Glotzer makes the case that historians need to examine suburban history through the lens of capital, gentrification, and climate histories. Linked below!
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- On First View, A research article from Brent Campney and @tbowmanhist.bsky.social that charts growers' vigilante violence in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to suppress farmworker activism in the 70s & their shift in 1980 to nonviolent methods associated with neocon backlash. Linked below!
- New on First View from 8.3! An interview by @duke-university.bsky.social professor Adriane Lentz-Smith with one of the United States’ leading comedic journalists @roywoodjr.bsky.social on finding humor in our study of the past. Read the full piece here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Did you present at #AHA2026 and receive promising feedback on your research? If so, consider submitting to MAH. Email mah@cambridge.org if you have questions.
- Are you attending AHA? Visit the booth of our published, CUP!
- All set up at #AHA26. Exhibit hall opens tomorrow (Friday) at 9 am. So many great new books to see. Stop by (lower level of the Chicago Hilton) and have a look. @universitypress.cambridge.org @historians.org
- Reposted by Modern American Historyproud to be part of this conversation on the battle for academic freedom and its many dimensions across the country. look for the folks in your community who are organizing and building power together!
- Now on First View: The latest MAH Q&A on how the national crisis in higher ed affects historians of the modern United States. Lauren Jae Gutterman speaks to Julio Capó, Jr., Joan E. Cashin, Alex Lichtenstein, and Melanie Newport. Read the full Q&A here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Now on First View: The latest MAH Q&A on how the national crisis in higher ed affects historians of the modern United States. Lauren Jae Gutterman speaks to Julio Capó, Jr., Joan E. Cashin, Alex Lichtenstein, and Melanie Newport. Read the full Q&A here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Their comments shed light on commonalities in the attacks historians face, the effects of attacks on teaching and research, & ways historians are fighting back. @juliocapojr.bsky.social , @melanienewport.bsky.social , @joanecashin.bsky.social
- A warm welcome to our new board member! Regina Kunzel, Larned Professor of History and Professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, at Yale is an historian of the modern US with interests in histories of gender & sexuality, queer history, history of psychiatry, and history of incarceration.
- *Call for Applications* Would you be interested in editing an academic journal? MAH editors Sarah Snyder and Darren Dochuk will reach the end of their term in summer 2027, and Cambridge is looking for a new editorial team. More details below.
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- Congratulations to MAH editorial board member, @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social, on her new book, "Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore." Read for a narrative history of 20th-century Black radicalism told through the life of one trailblazing woman.
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- Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Are you presenting at the S-USIH annual meeting in Detroit this weekend? Consider submitting an article version of your conference paper to Modern American History! #USIH2025
- Are you interested in scholarship on policing, incarcertaion, and crime? Our curated collection on the topic is a valuable resource. Access all the pieces here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- In honor of Indigenous History Day, read about Inidgenous Art in US museums.
- 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”
- Congratulations to the honorable mention for our third Annual Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips Essay Prize winner: Jan Michael at @tgsatnu.bsky.social for "The Boundaries of Power: How Posse Comitatus Sought to Dismantle the U.S. State." Look for the article in a future issue of MAH!
- We're excited to announce the winner of the third annual Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips Essay Prize: @syrussolojin.bsky.social at @nyu.edu with “‘Are You My Kimchi Mother?’ Race, Women, and the U.S. Military’s Study Abroad Training Program in the Early Cold War.”
- 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!
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- 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...
