Modern American History
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News and insights from the journal Modern American History, devoted to all aspects of American history since the 1890s.
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*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.
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.
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.
January 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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
January 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Are you attending AHA? Visit the booth of our published, CUP!
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proud 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...
Read the full Q&A here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Crisis in Higher Education | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
Crisis in Higher Education
www.cambridge.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
proud 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...
Read the full Q&A here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Crisis in Higher Education | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
Crisis in Higher Education
www.cambridge.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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...
Read the full Q&A here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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.
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.
December 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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.
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.
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.
December 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
*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.
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.
Now out on First View!
Woop! I've got a new article out with @modamhist.bsky.social!
"Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust" - open access on First View
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust" - open access on First View
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust
www.cambridge.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Now out on First View!
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.
Up now on First View!
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...
“Energy Humanities and American History” | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
“Energy Humanities and American History”
www.cambridge.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Up now on First View!
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
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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...
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...
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”
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”
October 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In honor of Indigenous History Day, read about Inidgenous Art in US museums.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
The Crisis of American Conservatism | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
The Crisis of American Conservatism
www.cambridge.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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.
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:
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:
Abajo con Bakke: Latinos’ Leading Role in the Fight for Affirmative Action in the 1970s | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
Abajo con Bakke: Latinos’ Leading Role in the Fight for Affirmative Action in the 1970s
www.cambridge.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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:
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.
"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!
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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
I explore Lowell National Historical Park as a microcosm of the modern Democratic Party’s complex transformation. #USHistory
“‘Downtown Lowell is a Fun Place to Be’: Postindustrial Regeneration and the Making of the ‘New Liberals,’ 1974–1992” | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
“‘Downtown Lowell is a Fun Place to Be’: Postindustrial Regeneration and the Making of the ‘New Liberals,’ 1974–1992”
doi.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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
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!
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.
June 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Ten more days until submissions are due!
Don't forget to submit something for our third annual essay prize competition!
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 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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...
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...
“Put Your Money Where the Kids Are”: Mobil Oil, Social Responsibility, and Cultures of Privatization in the 1970s | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
“Put Your Money Where the Kids Are”: Mobil Oil, Social Responsibility, and Cultures of Privatization in the 1970s
www.cambridge.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
*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...
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...