PROCESS: A BLOG FOR AMERICAN HISTORYCOMMENTARYRESEARCHTEACHING THE JAHUSING OBJECTS IN TEACHINGTHE “PARADOX” PARADOX September 28, 2017. “A Disrespectful Loyalty” (May 1970-March 1973) and “The Weight of Memory” (March 1973 onward) The Vietnam War, Episodes 9 and 10. September 26, 2017. “The Veneer of Civilization” (June 1968-May 1969) and “The History of the World” (April 1969-May 1970) The Vietnam War, Episodes 7 and 8. THE TROUBLED HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION AFTER THE BROWNAUTHOR:

SONYA RAMSEY

The Troubled History of American Education after the. Brown. Decision. On May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision that racial segregation in the public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment, it sparked national reactions ranging from elation to rage. FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES IN AMERICAN HISTORY For-profit business colleges appeared with their penmanship and accounting classes in places like Boston, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia in the 1830s and 1840s. But the expansion continued well beyond eastern urban areas during the 1850s and 1860s. Many more could be seen from Chicago to New Orleans and from Memphis to San Jose. THE ARTS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Advocates for public schools have always needed to explain how they serve the public good, and these explanations have evolved within larger discourses of national identity. In this context, the public schools’ arts curriculum poses significant questions about

America’s self

TEACHING THE HISTORY OF CAPITALISM IN THE HIGH SCHOOL The initial class definition last year was as follows: “Capitalism is an open-market socio-economic system allowing for financial inequality which is self-regulated by all individuals through competition, acting in their own self-interest [with the goal of/by-product of/possible effect of . . . maximizing production and

innovation for all

SLAVE CONSUMPTION IN THE OLD SOUTH: A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD Slave Consumption in the Old South: A Double-Edged Sword. Crossposted from The American Historian Online. By the Civil War’s last weary winter, Confederate Richmond, had become accustomed to the pounding of artillery echoing across nearby fields. City newspapers noted the Army of the Potomac’s unrelenting pressure on nearby Petersburg, but NEW NIXON AND YOUTH POLITICS, 1968 After the election, the Nixon White House’s politics of youth continued the law-and-order approach that had shaped the campaign in 1968. Nixon soon after called for one thousand extra FBI agents for “keeping order” on American campuses. From 1968 to 1970,the number of students arrested increased from four thousand to seventy-two

hundred

PROTEST AND PUNISHMENT IN RURAL NORTH CAROLINA For more information on the burning of the KKK meeting hall referenced in the post, see Crystal R. Sanders, “North Carolina Justice on Display: Governor Bob Scott and the 1968 Benson Affair,” Journal of Southern History, 79 (no. 3, 2013), 659-680. Also see David Cunningham, Klansville, U.S.A.:The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan (New York, 2012). THE 1952 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE US, AND THE USSR The 1952 Olympic Games, the US, and the USSR. 0. Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Source: Wikimedia. The relationship between politics and international sport is fraught with tension and drama: the same qualities that make for the most riveting athletic contests. The Olympics are no stranger to this dynamic, as the Games have long

enabled

TRUMP, DEMOCRACY, AND THE CONSTITUTION Trump, Democracy, and the Constitution. At the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, Elbridge Gerry, a delegate from Massachusetts, warned against too much democracy. The people, he stated, were “the dupes of pretended patriots” and were “daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions by the false reports circulated by designing

men.”.

PROCESS: A BLOG FOR AMERICAN HISTORYCOMMENTARYRESEARCHTEACHING THE JAHUSING OBJECTS IN TEACHINGTHE “PARADOX” PARADOX September 28, 2017. “A Disrespectful Loyalty” (May 1970-March 1973) and “The Weight of Memory” (March 1973 onward) The Vietnam War, Episodes 9 and 10. September 26, 2017. “The Veneer of Civilization” (June 1968-May 1969) and “The History of the World” (April 1969-May 1970) The Vietnam War, Episodes 7 and 8. THE TROUBLED HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION AFTER THE BROWNAUTHOR:

SONYA RAMSEY

The Troubled History of American Education after the. Brown. Decision. On May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision that racial segregation in the public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment, it sparked national reactions ranging from elation to rage. FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES IN AMERICAN HISTORY For-profit business colleges appeared with their penmanship and accounting classes in places like Boston, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia in the 1830s and 1840s. But the expansion continued well beyond eastern urban areas during the 1850s and 1860s. Many more could be seen from Chicago to New Orleans and from Memphis to San Jose. THE ARTS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Advocates for public schools have always needed to explain how they serve the public good, and these explanations have evolved within larger discourses of national identity. In this context, the public schools’ arts curriculum poses significant questions about

America’s self

TEACHING THE HISTORY OF CAPITALISM IN THE HIGH SCHOOL The initial class definition last year was as follows: “Capitalism is an open-market socio-economic system allowing for financial inequality which is self-regulated by all individuals through competition, acting in their own self-interest [with the goal of/by-product of/possible effect of . . . maximizing production and

innovation for all

SLAVE CONSUMPTION IN THE OLD SOUTH: A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD Slave Consumption in the Old South: A Double-Edged Sword. Crossposted from The American Historian Online. By the Civil War’s last weary winter, Confederate Richmond, had become accustomed to the pounding of artillery echoing across nearby fields. City newspapers noted the Army of the Potomac’s unrelenting pressure on nearby Petersburg, but NEW NIXON AND YOUTH POLITICS, 1968 After the election, the Nixon White House’s politics of youth continued the law-and-order approach that had shaped the campaign in 1968. Nixon soon after called for one thousand extra FBI agents for “keeping order” on American campuses. From 1968 to 1970,the number of students arrested increased from four thousand to seventy-two

hundred

PROTEST AND PUNISHMENT IN RURAL NORTH CAROLINA For more information on the burning of the KKK meeting hall referenced in the post, see Crystal R. Sanders, “North Carolina Justice on Display: Governor Bob Scott and the 1968 Benson Affair,” Journal of Southern History, 79 (no. 3, 2013), 659-680. Also see David Cunningham, Klansville, U.S.A.:The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan (New York, 2012). THE 1952 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE US, AND THE USSR The 1952 Olympic Games, the US, and the USSR. 0. Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Source: Wikimedia. The relationship between politics and international sport is fraught with tension and drama: the same qualities that make for the most riveting athletic contests. The Olympics are no stranger to this dynamic, as the Games have long

enabled

TRUMP, DEMOCRACY, AND THE CONSTITUTION Trump, Democracy, and the Constitution. At the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, Elbridge Gerry, a delegate from Massachusetts, warned against too much democracy. The people, he stated, were “the dupes of pretended patriots” and were “daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions by the false reports circulated by designing

men.”.

TEACHING THE HISTORY OF CAPITALISM IN THE HIGH SCHOOL The initial class definition last year was as follows: “Capitalism is an open-market socio-economic system allowing for financial inequality which is self-regulated by all individuals through competition, acting in their own self-interest [with the goal of/by-product of/possible effect of . . . maximizing production and

innovation for all

BEYOND MISS AMERICA 1968: A FEMINIST HISTORY Beyond Miss America 1968: A Feminist History. Alix Kates Shulman Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Photograph copyright Alix Kates Shulman; used with permission. When it comes to marking anniversaries of 1968 and the U.S. women’s movement, the demonstration against the Miss America

pageant is perhaps

FBI FILES ON COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD 100-HQ-341561: Labor Conditions. For example, if the FBI has a file on the “labor conditions” of Brazil during and after World War II, the complete file number should be 100-HQ-341561-Subfile205. The FBI file number for its records on “smuggling” in Mexico should be 64-HQ-309-Subfile221. The FBI’s files related to its LEGATs and its NEW NIXON AND YOUTH POLITICS, 1968 This 1968 poster was one of the Young Voters for Nixon’s most popular successes as it attracted several major press stories, managed an appearance on a top rated television program and found a place in the Smithsonian Institute. Image via the SLAVE CONSUMPTION IN THE OLD SOUTH: A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD Slave Consumption in the Old South: A Double-Edged Sword. Crossposted from The American Historian Online. By the Civil War’s last weary winter, Confederate Richmond, had become accustomed to the pounding of artillery echoing across nearby fields. City newspapers noted the Army of the Potomac’s unrelenting pressure on nearby Petersburg, but FINDING ITS WAY: THOUGHTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Finding its Way: Thoughts on Environmental History. Joshua Specht is a junior faculty member at Monash University. He is currently working on Red Meat Republic, a history of meatpacking and ranching in the nineteenth-century United States. The more people who want to talk about nature, the harder it seems to say anything coherent about it. THE VALUE OF HISTORY AND THE HISTORY RELEVANCE CAMPAIGN As historians, we are passionate about the importance of history. Convincing others of that importance is as crucial as the work we do researching, teaching, and presenting history. The OAH, along with 29 other history organizations (to date), have endorsed the History Relevance Campaign’s statement EVANGELICALS AND IMMIGRATION: A CONFLICTED HISTORY Last June, a national outcry followed the Trump administration’s policy to separate children from their parents at the U.S. border. In response to the public outrage, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions pointed to the Apostle Paul’s “clear and wise command in Romans

13,”

WHISTLEBLOWING SANS FRONTIÈRES: EDWARD SNOWDEN, PHILIP On July 2, 2013, the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales took off from Moscow but was soon forced to land in Vienna. Morales, who had been attending a conference on gas-exporting countries in Russia, was unexpectedly stranded in Austria after the plane had been denied

permission to

QUEER RAGE: POLICE VIOLENCE AND THE STONEWALL REBELLION OF Vector, June 1969, p. 5. This summer, millions of people around the world will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion, when thousands of people—gay, lesbian, bi, trans, queer, and straight–rioted in the streets of New York to protest an aggressive police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar. The Stonewall uprising was

a

PROCESS: A BLOG FOR AMERICAN HISTORYCOMMENTARYRESEARCHTEAR GAS AND THE U.S. BORDERWORKING AS A HISTORIAN September 28, 2017. “A Disrespectful Loyalty” (May 1970-March 1973) and “The Weight of Memory” (March 1973 onward) The Vietnam War, Episodes 9 and 10. September 26, 2017. “The Veneer of Civilization” (June 1968-May 1969) and “The History of the World” (April 1969-May 1970) The Vietnam War, Episodes 7 and 8. TEACHING THE HISTORY OF CAPITALISM IN THE HIGH SCHOOL The initial class definition last year was as follows: “Capitalism is an open-market socio-economic system allowing for financial inequality which is self-regulated by all individuals through competition, acting in their own self-interest [with the goal of/by-product of/possible effect of . . . maximizing production and

innovation for all

THE TROUBLED HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION AFTER THE BROWN The Troubled History of American Education after the. Brown. Decision. On May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision that racial segregation in the public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment, it sparked national reactions ranging from elation to rage. FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES IN AMERICAN HISTORY For-profit business colleges appeared with their penmanship and accounting classes in places like Boston, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia in the 1830s and 1840s. But the expansion continued well beyond eastern urban areas during the 1850s and 1860s. Many more could be seen from Chicago to New Orleans and from Memphis to San Jose. THE ARTS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Advocates for public schools have always needed to explain how they serve the public good, and these explanations have evolved within larger discourses of national identity. In this context, the public schools’ arts curriculum poses significant questions about

America’s self

EVANGELICALS AND IMMIGRATION: A CONFLICTED HISTORY Last June, a national outcry followed the Trump administration’s policy to separate children from their parents at the U.S. border. In response to the public outrage, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions pointed to the Apostle Paul’s “clear and wise command in Romans

13,”

A COLORBLIND CAMPUS? WHITE EVANGELICAL COLLEGES AND BLACK Founders Week, 1970, Moody Bible Institute. It was the most important week of the year for the storied college founded by the famous nineteenth-century evangelist, D.L. Moody. A public protest at this time and place, Melvin Warren and Leona Jenkins PROTEST AND PUNISHMENT IN RURAL NORTH CAROLINA For more information on the burning of the KKK meeting hall referenced in the post, see Crystal R. Sanders, “North Carolina Justice on Display: Governor Bob Scott and the 1968 Benson Affair,” Journal of Southern History, 79 (no. 3, 2013), 659-680. Also see David Cunningham, Klansville, U.S.A.:The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan (New York, 2012). THE 1952 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE US, AND THE USSR The 1952 Olympic Games, the US, and the USSR. 0. Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Source: Wikimedia. The relationship between politics and international sport is fraught with tension and drama: the same qualities that make for the most riveting athletic contests. The Olympics are no stranger to this dynamic, as the Games have long

enabled

ESCAPING THE ROBOT’S LOOP: WESTWORLD AND THE POLITICS OF Escaping the Robot’s Loop: Westworld and the Politics of Consciousness-Raising. Park creator Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) oversees his new narrative involving the “hosts” Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Teddy (James Marsden). Spoilers for Season 1 of Westworld below. “Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. PROCESS: A BLOG FOR AMERICAN HISTORYCOMMENTARYRESEARCHTEAR GAS AND THE U.S. BORDERWORKING AS A HISTORIAN September 28, 2017. “A Disrespectful Loyalty” (May 1970-March 1973) and “The Weight of Memory” (March 1973 onward) The Vietnam War, Episodes 9 and 10. September 26, 2017. “The Veneer of Civilization” (June 1968-May 1969) and “The History of the World” (April 1969-May 1970) The Vietnam War, Episodes 7 and 8. TEACHING THE HISTORY OF CAPITALISM IN THE HIGH SCHOOL The initial class definition last year was as follows: “Capitalism is an open-market socio-economic system allowing for financial inequality which is self-regulated by all individuals through competition, acting in their own self-interest [with the goal of/by-product of/possible effect of . . . maximizing production and

innovation for all

THE TROUBLED HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION AFTER THE BROWN The Troubled History of American Education after the. Brown. Decision. On May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision that racial segregation in the public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment, it sparked national reactions ranging from elation to rage. FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES IN AMERICAN HISTORY For-profit business colleges appeared with their penmanship and accounting classes in places like Boston, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia in the 1830s and 1840s. But the expansion continued well beyond eastern urban areas during the 1850s and 1860s. Many more could be seen from Chicago to New Orleans and from Memphis to San Jose. THE ARTS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Advocates for public schools have always needed to explain how they serve the public good, and these explanations have evolved within larger discourses of national identity. In this context, the public schools’ arts curriculum poses significant questions about

America’s self

EVANGELICALS AND IMMIGRATION: A CONFLICTED HISTORY Last June, a national outcry followed the Trump administration’s policy to separate children from their parents at the U.S. border. In response to the public outrage, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions pointed to the Apostle Paul’s “clear and wise command in Romans

13,”

A COLORBLIND CAMPUS? WHITE EVANGELICAL COLLEGES AND BLACK Founders Week, 1970, Moody Bible Institute. It was the most important week of the year for the storied college founded by the famous nineteenth-century evangelist, D.L. Moody. A public protest at this time and place, Melvin Warren and Leona Jenkins PROTEST AND PUNISHMENT IN RURAL NORTH CAROLINA For more information on the burning of the KKK meeting hall referenced in the post, see Crystal R. Sanders, “North Carolina Justice on Display: Governor Bob Scott and the 1968 Benson Affair,” Journal of Southern History, 79 (no. 3, 2013), 659-680. Also see David Cunningham, Klansville, U.S.A.:The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan (New York, 2012). THE 1952 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE US, AND THE USSR The 1952 Olympic Games, the US, and the USSR. 0. Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Source: Wikimedia. The relationship between politics and international sport is fraught with tension and drama: the same qualities that make for the most riveting athletic contests. The Olympics are no stranger to this dynamic, as the Games have long

enabled

ESCAPING THE ROBOT’S LOOP: WESTWORLD AND THE POLITICS OF Escaping the Robot’s Loop: Westworld and the Politics of Consciousness-Raising. Park creator Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) oversees his new narrative involving the “hosts” Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Teddy (James Marsden). Spoilers for Season 1 of Westworld below. “Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. THE ARTS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Advocates for public schools have always needed to explain how they serve the public good, and these explanations have evolved within larger discourses of national identity. In this context, the public schools’ arts curriculum poses significant questions about

America’s self

NEW NIXON AND YOUTH POLITICS, 1968 After the election, the Nixon White House’s politics of youth continued the law-and-order approach that had shaped the campaign in 1968. Nixon soon after called for one thousand extra FBI agents for “keeping order” on American campuses. From 1968 to 1970,the number of students arrested increased from four thousand to seventy-two

hundred

BEYOND MISS AMERICA 1968: A FEMINIST HISTORY Beyond Miss America 1968: A Feminist History. Alix Kates Shulman Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Photograph copyright Alix Kates Shulman; used with permission. When it comes to marking anniversaries of 1968 and the U.S. women’s movement, the demonstration against the Miss America

pageant is perhaps

SLAVE CONSUMPTION IN THE OLD SOUTH: A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD Slave Consumption in the Old South: A Double-Edged Sword. Crossposted from The American Historian Online. By the Civil War’s last weary winter, Confederate Richmond, had become accustomed to the pounding of artillery echoing across nearby fields. City newspapers noted the Army of the Potomac’s unrelenting pressure on nearby Petersburg, but FINDING ITS WAY: THOUGHTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Finding its Way: Thoughts on Environmental History. Joshua Specht is a junior faculty member at Monash University. He is currently working on Red Meat Republic, a history of meatpacking and ranching in the nineteenth-century United States. The more people who want to talk about nature, the harder it seems to say anything coherent about it. “RIDING THE TIGER” (1961-1963) In this episode, the documentary focuses on a two-year period (1961–1963). First, however, Burns and Novick take us to 1967 and the terrifying experience of U.S. Marine John Musgrave who was sent out with two other soldiers from his base at Con Thien to set up an all-night “listening post.” Enemy so QUEER RAGE: POLICE VIOLENCE AND THE STONEWALL REBELLION OF Vector, June 1969, p. 5. This summer, millions of people around the world will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion, when thousands of people—gay, lesbian, bi, trans, queer, and straight–rioted in the streets of New York to protest an aggressive police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar. The Stonewall uprising was

a

DONALD TRUMP AND THE ANTI-NEW DEAL TRADITION Donald Trump and the Anti-New Deal Tradition. 1. The phenomenon of Trumpism has represented a challenge for the United States but has been a boon for historians. It is undeniable that the Republican presidential candidate has brought an unprecedented mixture of xenophobia, ignorance, sexism, authoritarianism, bluster, and celebrity culture into THE POLITICS OF STATEHOOD IN HAWAI‘I AND THE URGENCY OF The Royal Order is an order of knighthood established by Kamehameha V in 1865, to promote and defend the Hawaiian sovereignty, and thus to honor the legacy of his grandfather who established the monarchy. In Hawaiian tradition, during times of conflict, a Puʻuhonua is a place designated to provide safety and protection. RON CHERNOW’S ALEXANDER HAMILTON IS NOT THROWING AWAY ITS The Hamilton we desperately want is not the Hamilton the 2010s sorely deserve. That said, Alexander Hamilton is far from definitive on the Federalist Papers’ most prolific contributor. Chernow deeply mined Hamilton’s writings, but barely scratched the surface of the prodigious scholarship on the founding era’s politics and culture,

and it

PROCESS: A BLOG FOR AMERICAN HISTORYCOMMENTARYRESEARCHTEACHING THE JAHUSING OBJECTS IN TEACHINGTHE “PARADOX” PARADOXHISTORIANS OF AMERICAN HISTORYORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORYAMERICAN HISTORY BLOGWINDOWS PROCESS HISTORYASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANSHISTORY

BLOG SITES

On July 30, 2019, exactly four hundred years after the inaugural meeting of the Virginia General Assembly, President Donald Trump SLAVE CONSUMPTION IN THE OLD SOUTH: A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORDAUTHOR:

KATHLEEN HILLIARD

Crossposted from The American Historian Online. By the Civil War’s last weary winter, Confederate Richmond, had become accustomed to the pounding of artillery echoing across nearby fields. City newspapers noted the Army of the Potomac’s unrelenting pressure TEACHING THE HISTORY OF CAPITALISM IN THE HIGH SCHOOL As a teacher of foundational courses on World History and U.S. History to high-school students, I have often found students come to my class with set opinions about politics and society based on very little deep thinking. In particular, they come to THE TROUBLED HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION AFTER THE BROWN

On May 17, 1954,

when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka decision that racial segregation in the public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment, it sparked national reactions ranging from elation to rage. As some Americans celebrated this important ruling and its impact on democracy, their early belief in FINDING ITS WAY: THOUGHTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY The more people who want to talk about nature, the harder it seems to say anything coherent about it. In a recent post, Lisa Brady asks if environmental history has lost its way. Brady ultimately celebrates the field’s growth, arguing that “inclusivity need not blur our

focus.” I

THE 1952 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE US, AND THE USSR The relationship between politics and international sport is fraught with tension and drama: the same qualities that make for the most riveting athletic contests. The Olympics are no stranger to this dynamic, as the Games have long enabled global superpowers to enact their political and ideological BEYOND MISS AMERICA 1968: A FEMINIST HISTORY Broadside, “Slavery Exists!” (1968) via the Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture digital collection at Duke University.. For examples of periodic resurfacing of the Miss America pageant protest, see Kathie Sarachild, “The First Whack at the Miss America Edifice,” Newsday (Combined editions, Long Island, NY), 12 September 1986, p. 89; Christine Stansell, “1968: Lessons Learned WHISTLEBLOWING SANS FRONTIÈRES: EDWARD SNOWDEN, PHILIP On July 2, 2013, the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales took off from Moscow but was soon forced to land in Vienna. Morales, who had been attending a conference on gas-exporting countries in Russia, was unexpectedly stranded in Austria after the plane had been denied

permission to

PROTEST AND PUNISHMENT IN RURAL NORTH CAROLINA For more information on the burning of the KKK meeting hall referenced in the post, see Crystal R. Sanders, “North Carolina Justice on Display: Governor Bob Scott and the 1968 Benson Affair,” Journal of Southern History, 79 (no. 3, 2013), 659-680. Also see David Cunningham, Klansville, U.S.A.:The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan (New York, 2012). TELEVISING THE REVOLUTION: TURN’S PEGGY SHIPPEN ARNOLD Not long before her death in 1804, Margaret Shippen Arnold (better known as “Peggy”) lamented to her son that “misfortunes and other circumstances have made me lay castle-building quite aside Mine has been an eventful life.” She had indeed led an eventful life. In PROCESS: A BLOG FOR AMERICAN HISTORYCOMMENTARYRESEARCHTEACHING THE JAHUSING OBJECTS IN TEACHINGTHE “PARADOX” PARADOXHISTORIANS OF AMERICAN HISTORYORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORYAMERICAN HISTORY BLOGWINDOWS PROCESS HISTORYASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANSHISTORY

BLOG SITES

On July 30, 2019, exactly four hundred years after the inaugural meeting of the Virginia General Assembly, President Donald Trump SLAVE CONSUMPTION IN THE OLD SOUTH: A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORDAUTHOR:

KATHLEEN HILLIARD

Crossposted from The American Historian Online. By the Civil War’s last weary winter, Confederate Richmond, had become accustomed to the pounding of artillery echoing across nearby fields. City newspapers noted the Army of the Potomac’s unrelenting pressure TEACHING THE HISTORY OF CAPITALISM IN THE HIGH SCHOOL As a teacher of foundational courses on World History and U.S. History to high-school students, I have often found students come to my class with set opinions about politics and society based on very little deep thinking. In particular, they come to THE TROUBLED HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION AFTER THE BROWN

On May 17, 1954,

when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka decision that racial segregation in the public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment, it sparked national reactions ranging from elation to rage. As some Americans celebrated this important ruling and its impact on democracy, their early belief in FINDING ITS WAY: THOUGHTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY The more people who want to talk about nature, the harder it seems to say anything coherent about it. In a recent post, Lisa Brady asks if environmental history has lost its way. Brady ultimately celebrates the field’s growth, arguing that “inclusivity need not blur our

focus.” I

THE 1952 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE US, AND THE USSR The relationship between politics and international sport is fraught with tension and drama: the same qualities that make for the most riveting athletic contests. The Olympics are no stranger to this dynamic, as the Games have long enabled global superpowers to enact their political and ideological BEYOND MISS AMERICA 1968: A FEMINIST HISTORY Broadside, “Slavery Exists!” (1968) via the Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture digital collection at Duke University.. For examples of periodic resurfacing of the Miss America pageant protest, see Kathie Sarachild, “The First Whack at the Miss America Edifice,” Newsday (Combined editions, Long Island, NY), 12 September 1986, p. 89; Christine Stansell, “1968: Lessons Learned WHISTLEBLOWING SANS FRONTIÈRES: EDWARD SNOWDEN, PHILIP On July 2, 2013, the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales took off from Moscow but was soon forced to land in Vienna. Morales, who had been attending a conference on gas-exporting countries in Russia, was unexpectedly stranded in Austria after the plane had been denied

permission to

PROTEST AND PUNISHMENT IN RURAL NORTH CAROLINA For more information on the burning of the KKK meeting hall referenced in the post, see Crystal R. Sanders, “North Carolina Justice on Display: Governor Bob Scott and the 1968 Benson Affair,” Journal of Southern History, 79 (no. 3, 2013), 659-680. Also see David Cunningham, Klansville, U.S.A.:The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan (New York, 2012). TELEVISING THE REVOLUTION: TURN’S PEGGY SHIPPEN ARNOLD Not long before her death in 1804, Margaret Shippen Arnold (better known as “Peggy”) lamented to her son that “misfortunes and other circumstances have made me lay castle-building quite aside Mine has been an eventful life.” She had indeed led an eventful life. In TEACHING THE HISTORY OF CAPITALISM IN THE HIGH SCHOOL As a teacher of foundational courses on World History and U.S. History to high-school students, I have often found students come to my class with set opinions about politics and society based on very little deep thinking. In particular, they come to THE ARTS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Advocates for public schools have always needed to explain how they serve the public good, and these explanations have evolved within larger discourses of national identity. In this context, the public schools’ arts curriculum poses significant questions about

America’s self

WHISTLEBLOWING SANS FRONTIÈRES: EDWARD SNOWDEN, PHILIP On July 2, 2013, the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales took off from Moscow but was soon forced to land in Vienna. Morales, who had been attending a conference on gas-exporting countries in Russia, was unexpectedly stranded in Austria after the plane had been denied permission to pass through Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese

airspace.

BEYOND MISS AMERICA 1968: A FEMINIST HISTORY Alix Kates Shulman Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Photograph copyright Alix Kates Shulman; used with permission. When it comes to marking anniversaries of 1968 and the U.S. women’s movement, the WHY THE PORTUGUESE RESTORATION OF 1640 MATTERS TO THE Simon P. Newman, A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic (Philadelphia, 2013), 255.See also Christopher Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 (New York, 2010), esp. 428–31; J.H. Elliott, Empires of the New World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830 (New Haven, 2006), 103–6; and EVANGELICALS AND IMMIGRATION: A CONFLICTED HISTORY Last June, a national outcry followed the Trump administration’s policy to separate children from their parents at the U.S. border. In response to the public outrage, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions pointed to the Apostle Paul’s “clear and wise command in Romans

13,”

THE NEW WAVE OF “WHAT IFS?” Have we entered a new golden age of counterfactual history? It is too early to say for sure, as the history of counterfactual history remains to be written. But if recent and upcoming television shows are any indication, the clear answer is yes. Last year, NEW NIXON AND YOUTH POLITICS, 1968 This 1968 poster was one of the Young Voters for Nixon’s most popular successes as it attracted several major press stories, managed an appearance on a top rated television program and found a place in the Smithsonian Institute. Image via the DONALD TRUMP AND THE ANTI-NEW DEAL TRADITION The phenomenon of Trumpism has represented a challenge for the United States but has been a boon for historians. It is undeniable that the Republican presidential candidate has brought an unprecedented mixture of xenophobia, ignorance, sexism, authoritarianism, bluster, and THE (AFRICAN) AMERICAN MISSIONARY MOVEMENT IN AFRICA IN The nucleus of this collaboration lay in the rise of the independent African American missionary movement in the late nineteenth century. Pioneered by the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), black America’s oldest independent institution, several African American mission boards began to send their workers to colonies in West and

South Africa.

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