Modern American History
@modamhist.bsky.social
News and insights from the journal Modern American History, devoted to all aspects of American history since the 1890s.
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.
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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.
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...
Access all the pieces here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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...
Access all the pieces here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A new Q&A in 8.2: "The Indigenous Turn in Museums." Two historians and three curators reflect on their work, curatorial visions, goals for reaching wider publics through Indigenous arts, and the extent to which an “Indigenous turn” has transpired.
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A new Q&A in 8.2: "The Indigenous Turn in Museums." Two historians and three curators reflect on their work, curatorial visions, goals for reaching wider publics through Indigenous arts, and the extent to which an “Indigenous turn” has transpired.
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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!
Look for the article in a future issue of MAH!
October 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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!
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.”
October 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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.”
Our last research article from 8.2: @henrymjtonks.bsky.social looks at Lowell, MA, as an example of how deindustrialization & urban decay in the 1970s forced policymakers to focus on public-private partnerships as mechanisms of economic regeneration
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Our last research article from 8.2: @henrymjtonks.bsky.social looks at Lowell, MA, as an example of how deindustrialization & urban decay in the 1970s forced policymakers to focus on public-private partnerships as mechanisms of economic regeneration
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Molly M. Henderson, who is a VAP in Gender & Women's Studies @uwmadison.bsky.social, explores how Mobil Oil used its investments in children & families to bolstered its reputation and prevent alternate visions of economic redistribution.
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Molly M. Henderson, who is a VAP in Gender & Women's Studies @uwmadison.bsky.social, explores how Mobil Oil used its investments in children & families to bolstered its reputation and prevent alternate visions of economic redistribution.
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
8.2 also includes "Unity and Struggle: The Twilight of Maoism in the United States" by Kazushi Minami.
Linked here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Linked here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
8.2 also includes "Unity and Struggle: The Twilight of Maoism in the United States" by Kazushi Minami.
Linked here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Linked here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Another exciting new piece of research from 8.2: "A Tale of Two Superports: Oil, Empire, and Anti-Colonial Environmentalism in Puerto Rico and Palau" by Dante LaRiccia.
Read the full article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read the full article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
August 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Another exciting new piece of research from 8.2: "A Tale of Two Superports: Oil, Empire, and Anti-Colonial Environmentalism in Puerto Rico and Palau" by Dante LaRiccia.
Read the full article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read the full article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The latest issue includes several exciting research articles.
Our cover article is "The Specter of Waste: Incarcerated Bodies, “Healthy” Labor, and the Production of Recreational Forests" by Anaïs Lefèvre
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Our cover article is "The Specter of Waste: Incarcerated Bodies, “Healthy” Labor, and the Production of Recreational Forests" by Anaïs Lefèvre
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
August 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The latest issue includes several exciting research articles.
Our cover article is "The Specter of Waste: Incarcerated Bodies, “Healthy” Labor, and the Production of Recreational Forests" by Anaïs Lefèvre
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Our cover article is "The Specter of Waste: Incarcerated Bodies, “Healthy” Labor, and the Production of Recreational Forests" by Anaïs Lefèvre
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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”
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”
August 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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”
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.
August 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Just dropped: issue 8.2! Linked 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.
"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.
July 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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.
"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:
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:
July 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
*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:
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!
Link below!
July 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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!
Link below!
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.
May 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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...
Read the full story here" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
May 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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...
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...
Read the article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
April 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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...
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.
April 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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.
Issue 8.1 has arrived! Link below to read the thought provoking research articles and features from this issue.
April 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Issue 8.1 has arrived! Link below to read the thought provoking research articles and features from this issue.
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.
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.
February 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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.
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.
Below is a transcript of the conversation, which has been lightly edited only for clarity, punctuation, and space. We have done our best to maintain the spontaneity and informal tone of the free-flow conversation.
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February 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Below is a transcript of the conversation, which has been lightly edited only for clarity, punctuation, and space. We have done our best to maintain the spontaneity and informal tone of the free-flow conversation.
www.cambridge.org/co...
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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.
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.
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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.
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 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...
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...
January 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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...
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...
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.
Filmmaker, educator, and activist Judy Richardson has spent over 6 decades helping everyday people place themselves at the center of the Black freedom movement.
January 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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.
Filmmaker, educator, and activist Judy Richardson has spent over 6 decades helping everyday people place themselves at the center of the Black freedom movement.