JAH Podcast
Welcome to the Journal of American History Podcast. In this feature of the Journal of American History, we will present interviews with authors of articles in our journal. In the future, we hope also to bring you conversations with award-winning authors of books on American history. If you have comments or suggestions, please e-mail us at jahcast@oah.org.
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September 2019
For Labor and Democracy: The Farm Security Administration's Competing Visions for Farm Workers' Socioeconomic Reform and Civil Rights in the 1940s
Guest host Dr. Mireya Loza, Assistant Professor in Food Studies at New York University, interviews Dr. Verónica Martínez-Matsuda Assistant Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at Cornell University, about her article "For Labor and Democracy: The Farm Security Administration's Competing Visions for Farm Workers' Socioeconomic Reform and Civil Rights in the 1940s", which appears in the September 2019 issue of the Journal of American History.
June 2019
Slaves of the State: Infrastructure and Governance through Slavery in the Antebellum South
Guest host Dr. Susan Eva O'Donovan, Associate Professor of History at the University of Memphis, interviews Dr. Aaron R. Hall, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota about his article "Slaves of the State: Infrastructure and Governance through Slavery in the Antebellum South" which appears in the June 2019 issue of the Journal of American History.
March 2019
'Land of the White Hunter': Legal Liberalism and the Racial Politics of Morals Enforcement in Mid-century Los Angeles
Guest host Dr. Max Felker-Kantor, Visiting Assistant Professor of American and African American history at Ball State University, interviews Dr. Anne Gray Fischer, Visiting Assistant Professor of history at Indiana University and Assistant Editor at the Journal of American History, about her article "'Land of the White Hunter': Legal Liberalism and the Racial Politics of Morals Enforcement in Mid-century Los Angeles," which appears in the March 2019 issue of the Journal of American History.
December 2018
‘A Tornado is Coming!’: Counterfeiting and Commercializing Weather Forecasts from the Gilded Age to the New Era
Executive Editor Benjamin Irvin interviews Dr. Jamie Pietruska about her article, “‘A Tornado is Coming!’: Counterfeiting and Commercializing Weather Forecasts from the Gilded Age to the New Era,” which appears in the December 2018 issue of the Journal of American History.
September 2018
A Social Movement for a Global Age: U.S. Feminism and the Beijing Women's Conference of 1995
Guest host Robyn C. Spencer speaks with author Lisa Levenstein and Beijing Women's Conference attendee Loretta Ross about Levenstein's article, which appears in the September 2018 issue of the Journal of American History.
June 2018
“Shades of Mississippi”: The Nation of Islam’s Prison Organizing, the Carceral State, and the Black Freedom Struggle
Special guest host Dr. Kali Gross, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University, speaks with Garret Felber, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, about his article in the June 2018 issue of the Journal of American History
March 2018
A Martial Freedom Movement: Black G.I.s' Political Struggles during World War II
Benjamin Irvin, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Thomas A. Guglielmo, Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, about his article appearing in the March 2018 issue of the JAH.
December 2017
A Special Podcast on Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora
Benjamin Irvin, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Anne Macpherson, associate professor of history at the College of Brockport, SUNY, and Michael Staudenmaier, visiting assistant professor of history and Latin American and Latino/a studies at Aurora University, about their articles appearing in the December 2017 issue of the JAH.
December 2016
Setting the Table: Historians, Popular Writers, and Food History
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Matt Garcia, director of the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. In this episode they discuss his article appearing in the December 2016 issue of the JAH.
September 2016
"Sovereign Lords" and "Dependent Administrators": Artigan Privateers, Atlantic Borderwaters, and State Building in the Early Nineteenth Century
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Tyson Reeder, volume coeditor for The Joseph Smith Papers in Salt Lake City, Utah. In this episode they discuss his article appearing in the September 2016 issue of the JAH.
June 2016
Reunion and Reconciliation, Reviewed and Reconsidered
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Nina Silber, Professor of History at Boston University. In this episode they discuss her article appearing in the June 2016 issue of the JAH.
May 2016
History and Presence
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Robert Orsi, the first holder of the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University. In this episode they discuss Professor Orsi's new book, History and Presence.
March 2016
The Afterlives of a Confederate Archive: Civil War Documents and the Making of Sectional Reconciliation
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Yael A. Sternhell, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Tel Aviv University. They discuss her article appearing in the March 2016 issue of the JAH.
January 2016
Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition
Jessie Kindig, assistant editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Michael Honey, Professor of Labor and Ethnic Studies and American History at the University of Washington. They discuss his new book (available here) and his work.
December 2015
“My Heart Is in Cairo”: Malcolm X, the Arab Cold War, and the Making of Islamic Liberation Ethics
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Edward E. Curtis IV, Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). They discuss his article appearing in the December 2015 issue of the JAH.
September 2015
“The Crowning Insult”: Federal Segregation and the Gold Star Mother and Widow Pilgrimages of the Early 1930s
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Rebecca Jo Plant, associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, about the article appearing in the September 2015 issue of the JAH. Rebecca Jo Plant is co-author along with Frances M. Clarke, senior lecturer at the University of Sydney.
June 2015
“Historians and the Carceral State”
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Kelly Lytle Hernández, associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Heather Ann Thompson, professor of history at the University of Michigan. In this episode they discuss the JAH special issue, “Historians and the Carceral State.”
April 2015
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of Journal of American History, speaks with Christian G. Appy, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In this episode they discuss Professor Appy’s new book American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity.
March 2015
“What, Another Female Husband?”: The Prehistory of Same-Sex Marriage in America
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of Journal of American History, speaks with Rachel Hope Cleves, Associate Professor of History at the University of Victoria. In this episode they discuss her article, “What, Another Female Husband?”: The Prehistory of Same-Sex Marriage in America which appears in the March 2015 issue of the JAH.
December 2014
At the Hands of Parties Unknown? The State of the Field of Lynching Scholarship
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Michael J. Pfeifer, author of “At the Hands of Parties Unknown? The State of the Field of Lynching Scholarship”, a State of the Field essay appearing in the December 2014 issue of the JAH.
November 2014
Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of Journal of American History, speaks with Anne Sarah Rubin, Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. In this episode they discuss her new book, Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 320 pp. $35.00). Her online exploration of Sherman’s March can be found at www.shermansmarch.org.
October 2014
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek
Ed Linenthal, executive editor of Journal of American History, speaks with Ari Kelman, the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University and the author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. 384 pp. $35.00). You can read more about the author and the book at http://arikelman.org/.
September 2014
The New Math and Midcentury American Politics
Stephen Andrews, managing editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Christopher J. Phillips, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, author of The New Math and Midcentury American Politics. His article appears in the September 2014 issue of the Journal of American History.
July 2014
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Stephen Andrews talks with Alan Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American History at the University of Virginia and the author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832. In this podcast they discuss how the institution of slavery, enslaved people, and white Virginians were affected by the experience of the American Revolution and the War of 1812. (Recorded in June 2014.)
June 2014
The Cowboy Suit Tragedy: Spreading Risk, Owning Hazard in the Modern American Consumer Economy
Stephen Andrews, managing editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Barbara Young Welke, University of Minnesota, author of The Cowboy Suit Tragedy: Spreading Risk, Owning Hazard in the Modern American Consumer Economy. Her article appears in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of American History.
March 2014
“Produce More Joppolos”: John Hersey’s A Bell for Adano and the Making of the “Good Occupation”
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Susan L. Carruthers, Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark, author of “Produce More Joppolos”: John Hersey’s A Bell for Adano and the Making of the “Good Occupation”. Her article appears in the March 2014 issue of the Journal of American History.
January 2014
The Last of the Doughboys, The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Richard Rubin, author of The Last of the Doughboys, The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 544 pp. $15.95). You can read more about the author and the book at http://www.richardrubinonline.com/.
December 2013
The Urbanization of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the United States
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Etienne Benson, author of “The Urbanization of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the United States”. His article appears in the December 2013 issue of the JAH.
September 2013
Citizens of Nowhere: Fugitive Slaves and Free African Americans in Mexico, 1833-1857
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Sarah E. Cornell, author of “Citizens of Nowhere: Fugitive Slaves and Free African Americans in Mexico, 1833-1857”. Her article appears in the September 2013 issue of the JAH.
June 2013
The World With Us: The State of American Environmental History
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Paul Sutter, author of “The World With Us: The State of American Environmental History”, a State of the Field essay appearing in the June 2013 issue of the JAH.
April 2013
“Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service”
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with a panel about the OAH’s report examining the practice and presentation of American history in the National Park Service and at its sites. Participants include: Dave Thelen, Indiana University (emeritus), and Anne Mitchell Whisnant, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, two coauthors of the report; Katie Bliss, National Park Service; Seth Bruggeman, Temple University; Todd Moye, University of North Texas; Cathy Stanton, Tufts University; and Julia Washburn, National Park Service. Read the report online and learn more about the OAH’s collaboration with the National Park Service at http://oah.org/programs/nps/.
March 2013
“Their blood shall not be shed in vain”: American Evangelical Missionaries and the Search for God and Country in Post–World War II Asia
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Sarah Miller-Davenport, doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago and author of “Their blood shall not be shed in vain”: American Evangelical Missionaries and the Search for God and Country in Post–World War II Asia. Her work appears in the March 2013 issue of the Journal of American History.
January 2013
The Reexamination of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ed Linenthal speaks with James G. Blight, CIGI Chair in Foreign Policy Development and Professor at Balsillie School of International Affairs and with Janet Lang, Research Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. They discuss the reexamination of the Cuban missile crisis and their book projects found at http://www.armageddonletters.com/.
December 2012
“Moving Beyond Rags to Riches,” New York's Famine Irish Immigrants and Their Surprising Savings Accounts
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Tyler Anbinder, Professor of History at George Washington University and author of “Moving Beyond Rags to Riches,” New York's Famine Irish Immigrants and Their Surprising Savings Accounts. His work appears in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of American History.
September 2012
“Apostles of Fascism,” “Communist Clergy,” and the UAW: Political Ideology and Working-Class Religion in Detroit, 1919-1945
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Matthew Pehl, Assistant Professor of History at Augustana College and author of “Apostles of Fascism,” “Communist Clergy,” and the UAW: Political Ideology and Working-Class Religion in Detroit, 1919-1945. His work appears in the September 2012 issue of the Journal of American History.
June 2012
Oil in American History
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Brian C. Black, Karen R. Merrill, and Tyler Priest, the Consulting Editors and participants in this special issue titled: Oil in American History. Their work appears in the June 2012 issue of the Journal of American History.
March 2012
Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Matthew Avery Sutton, author of “Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age”. The essay appears in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of American History.
December 2011
Conservatism: A State of the Field
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Kim Phillips-Fein, author of the State of the Field essay “Conservatism: A State of the Field”. The essay appears in the December 2011 issue of the Journal of American History.
September 2011
On Borderlands
John Nieto-Phillips, associate editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Samuel Truett, co-author with Pekka Hämäläinen of “On Borderlands”. The essay appears in the September 2011 issue of the Journal of American History.
June 2011
Terrorism and the American Experience
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Beverly Gage, author of the forthcoming State of the Field essay “Terrorism and the American Experience”. The essay appears in the June 2011 issue of the Journal of American History.
March 2011
Consuming Relief: Food Stamps and the New Welfare of the New Deal
Stephen D. Andrews, associate editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Rachel Louise Moran, author of the article Consuming Relief: Food Stamps and the New Welfare of the New Deal. The article appears in the March 2011 issue of the Journal of American History.
December 2010
Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History
Khalil G. Muhammad, associate editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Heather Ann Thompson, author of the article Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History. The article appears in the December 2010 issue of the Journal of American History.
September 2010
Latino History: An Interchange on Present Realities and Future Prospects
John Nieto-Phillips, associate editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Virginia Sánchez Korrol, a participant in the Interchange titled Latino History: An Interchange on Present Realities and Future Prospects. The article appears in the September 2010 issue of the Journal of American History.
June 2010
“Slavery, Suicide, and Memory in North America”
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Terri L. Synder, author of the forthcoming article “Suicide, Slavery, and Memory in North America”. The article appears in the June 2010 issue of the Journal of American History.
March 2010
“Teaching U.S. History Abroad”
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Scott E. Casper, the contributing editor for the Journal’s “Textbooks and Teaching” section. They discuss the March 2009 installment, “Teaching U.S. History Abroad,” in which ten authors from around the world write about their experience teaching U.S. history outside the United States.
December 2009
“The Black Power Movement: A State of the Field”
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Peniel Joseph about his state of the field article, “The Black Power Movement: A State of the Field”. The article appears in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of American History.
September 2009
“Lincoln Theme 2.0”
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Matthew Pinsker about his state of the field article, “Lincoln Theme 2.0”. The article appears in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of American History. (Matthew Pinsker is a lecturer in the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program.)
June 2009
“The Free and Open People’s Market:” Political Ideology and Retail Brokerage at the New York Stock Exchange, 1913–1933
Stephen Andrews, associate editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Julie C. Ott about her article, “The Free and Open People’s Market:” Political Ideology and Retail Brokerage at the New York Stock Exchange, 1913–1933.” The article appears in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of American History.
March 2009
The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field
Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Thomas W. Zeiler about his article, “The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field.” The article appears in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of American History.
December 2008
“Worth a Lot of Negro Votes”: Black Voters, Africa, and the 1960 Presidential Campaign
Associate editor and professor of history at Indiana University, John Nieto-Phillips speaks with Professor James Meriwether about his article, “‘Worth a Lot of Negro Votes’: Black Voters, Africa, and the 1960 Presidential Campaign.” The article appears in the December 2008 issue of the Journal of American History and is also the focus of the December 2008 “Teaching the JAH” online supplement.
