The Journal of American History

Sep 24 2024 67 ep. 35 mins 988
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The Journal of American History Podcast features interviews with our authors and conversations with authors whose books on American history have won awards. Episodes are in MP3 format and will be released in the month preceding each Journal of American History (February, May, August and November). Published quarterly by the Organization of American Historians, the Journal of American History is the leading scholarly publication in the field of U.S. history and is well known as the major resource for the study, investigation, and teaching of our nation's past. For more information visit our website at http://jah.oah.org/podcast and http://www.oah.org/ or email us at [email protected].

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Lara Vapnek—The Labor of Infant Feeding

Sep 24 2024 49 mins  
In this episode of the Journal of American History Podcast Andrew Cooper speaks with Lara Vapnek about her article, "The Labor of Infant Feeding: Wet-Nursing at the Nursery and Child's Hospital, 1854–1910," which appeared in the June 2022 issue of the Journal of American History. Lara explains how the labor of infant feeding shaped the meaning of motherhood by

Responding to Rape – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History

Aug 13 2024 28 mins  
Over the past two decades, scholars have begun to document the centrality of sexual assault in the U.S. political landscape. There has been significant research on how sexual assault (and anti-rape activism) shaped the long civil rights movement, military occupations, and the dynamics of modern feminism. However, scholars are only recently considering how the politics surrounding s

Neither the One nor the Other – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History

Aug 06 2024 35 mins  
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Neither the One nor the Other: The Native South in a Black and White World after 1900," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this episode, Angela P. Hudson, Denise E. Bates, Dixie Ray Haggard, Robert Caldwell, and Daniel Usner unpack their panel session, whic

Getting the Story Straight – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History

Jul 30 2024 27 mins  
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Getting the Story Straight: Queering Regional Identities," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this episode, La Shonda Mims and Wesley Phelps have a conversation with Marina about the importance of regionality in histories of queerness and HIV/AIDS, and how

Missing Histories of Sexual Assault – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History

Jul 23 2024 30 mins  
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Missing Histories of Sexual Assault," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this episode, Katherine Ott, Rebecca Campbell, Lourdes Inoa Monegro, and Royleen J. Ross continue their important conversation about the lack of study, care, and affect surrounding sex

Sovereignties in the Atlantic World – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History

Jul 16 2024 26 mins  
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Sovereignties in the Atlantic World: Black and Indigenous Intersections," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. Historians of Indigenous peoples and historians of the African diaspora do not engage with each other often enough. Both sets of specialists generally

Queering Work – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History

Jul 09 2024 22 mins  
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Queering Work: LGBT Labor Histories," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this episode, Lane Windham, Alex Melody Burnett, Ryan Patrick Murphy, and Shay Olmstead continue their important conversation about queer and trans workers, "hauntings" in queer histor

Nursing for the Common Good – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History

Jul 02 2024 26 mins  
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Nursing for the Common Good: Health Activism, Social Justice, and the History of Nursing Work," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this panel, Kara Dixon Vuic, Cory Gatrall, Karissa Haugeberg, and Charissa Threat continue their important contribution to the

New Carceral Histories – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History

Jun 25 2024 28 mins  
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "New Carceral Histories: Legacies of Punishment before the Era of Mass Incarceration," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this panel, Maile Arvin, Abigail Kahn, Halee Robinson, Derek Taira, and Walter Stern continue their important conversation about ethics

On the Map — a Blogcast Episode

May 21 2024 16 mins  
This Blogcast Episode features Carleigh Beriont's article, "On the Map," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on December 12, 2023.In this episode, Beriont recovers the hidden history of the Marshall Islands, and how this area "has been central to U.S. security and military interests since the Second World War." She explains how the United States nuclear testing