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Two paper copies of the manuscript and an electronic version should be sent to the Editor, Journal of American History, 1215 E. Atwater, Bloomington, Indiana 47401. The electronic version should be in a Word, WordPerfect, or Rich Text format and may be submitted on a disk or as an email attachment. All text, including quotations and footnotes, should be prepared in double-spaced typescript according to The Chicago Manual of Style (University of Chicago Press). See the Journal’s style sheet for further details. Manuscripts, including footnotes, must not exceed 14,000 words. Because submissions are evaluated anonymously, the author’s name should appear only on the title page. Please provide your full address, including e-mail, in all correspondence. A manuscript that has been published or that is currently under consideration for publication elsewhere in either article or book form should not be submitted. The Journal will not consider submissions that duplicate other published works in either wording or substance. Articles that are accepted become the property of the Organization of American Historians. The OAH allows authors the free use of their materials as long as a decent interval elapses between publication in the Journal and subsequent publication. Graduate students interested in submitting essays for the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award should consult the guidelines at the OAH Web site. March 2005 – Volume 91, No. 4 < http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/issues/914.shtml> Presidential Address “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past” In an article based on her presidential address to the Organization of American Historians, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall explores the stories we craft and teach about the American civil rights movement. The dominant narrative, which rightly celebrates the decade between Brown v. Board of Education and the passage of the Voting Rights Act, often obscures both the movement's rich antecedents and the nationwide struggles that continue today. The truncated narrative of a sharply delimited, victorious civil rights struggle misconstrues the movement's radicalism and lends itself to use by the New Right to undermine the movement's far-reaching economic and structural goals. Hall proposes the story of a "long civil rights movement," a truer story that incorporates change and resistance across the twentieth century and speaks to the challenges of our time. (pp. 1233–63) |
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» Reminder: 2008 David Thelen Award, deadline May 1
The Organization of American Historians is now inviting entries for the 2008 David Thelen Award for the best scholarly article on U.S. history written in a language other than English.
» Call for Submissions: OAH David Thelen Award 2008
The Organization of American Historians is now inviting entries for the 2008 David Thelen Award for the best scholarly article on U.S. history written in a language other than English. The deadline for submission is May 1 2007.
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March 2005, Vol. 91, No. 4
From Royal to Republican: The Classical Image in Early America
Caroline Winterer takes a fresh look at the iconography of the American revolutionary era—the age of Liberties, Minervas, and Columbias—putting such images in the context of earlier illustrations that had circulated in the colonial period. She finds that the flamboyantly baroque and aristocratic images of antiquity that bedecked colonial-era books and engravings persisted into the nineteenth century, when aristocracy and hierarchy were being repudiated on all sides. Tracing the trajectory of one particular story and its accompanying imagery over time—the now-forgotten parable of the continence of Scipio—she shows how ancient concerns about empire were reworked for use in a modern republic with new imperial pretensions of its own on the western frontier.
All the World’s a Stage! The Actors’ Strike of 1919
Sean P. Holmes examines a quirky and prophetic incident of post-World War I labor unrest—the 1919 actors’ strike that darkened theaters in New York. Drawing upon largely unused archival sources, Holmes illuminates early twentieth-century cultural production, the obstacles to unionization posed by performers' aspirations to gentility and dreams of individual stardom, and the special resources that men and women of the stage could deploy against their employers. By transforming an industrial dispute into an entertainment spectacle, actors mobilized public sympathy and won the strike. Their strategy highlights the growing theatricality of worker protest in a service economy in which public performance was increasingly important to the productive process.
Richard Gregg, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Strategy of Nonviolence
Joseph Kip Kosek recovers the career of Richard Bartlett Gregg, America's first major theorist of militant nonviolence. In the early 1920s, frustrated by his work with organized labor, Gregg traveled to India to learn from Mohandas Gandhi and the Indian independence movement. He concluded that nonviolence, historically an inner religious conviction, could achieve social change as a modern, media-savvy form of political performance. Radical pacifists expanded upon and experimented with Gregg's theories, and Martin Luther King Jr. later used his ideas in the Montgomery bus boycott. Gregg's remarkable story brings together the disparate histories of civil rights, labor, pacifism, religion, the mass media, and, above all, the violence that defined twentieth-century politics in America and around the world.
‘I Don’t Trust You Anymore’: Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s
In the early 1960s, often considered the heyday of liberal interracial activism, the singer and songwriter Nina Simone forged a version of black cultural nationalism that emphasized female power. Internationally famous and known primarily for her incendiary song “Mississippi Goddam” (1963), Simone showed how cultural production mattered to black activism. She actively participated in the black freedom struggle with her music, lyrics, performance strategies, and self-representation. Ruth Feldstein shows how Simone drew on emerging concepts of feminism to create a gendered strategy of racial protest and how she disseminated a vision of black freedom and culture around the world. Feldstein offers a new way to think about the relationships of African American political activism, culture, and gender in the early 1960s.
Other Issues
June 2005, Vol. 92, No. 1
September 2005, Vol. 92, No. 2
December 2005, Vol. 92, No. 3