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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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In October 1907, seven of the leading historical societies of the Mississippi Valley were invited to Lincoln, Nebraska, “for the purpose of considering plans for effecting a permanent organization for the advancement of historical research and the collection and conservation of material in these western States.” The result was the formation of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. Seven years later, the Association launched the first issue of its quarterly Mississippi Valley Historical Review as a new publication to showcase the publishing activities of the association. The March 1964 issue completed the fiftieth volume of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, and at that time the association celebrated the half-century landmark anniversary by approving a name change of the association’s journal to the Journal of American History. The change in title not only reflected an awareness of a growing national membership in the association but recognized a decided shift in contributor emphasis from regional to nationally oriented history. The Journal of American History remains the leading scholarly publication and journal of record in the field of American history and is well known as the major resource for the study, investigation, and teaching of our country’s heritage. Published quarterly in March, June, September, and December, the Journal continues its distinguished career by publishing prize-winning and widely reprinted original articles on American history. The Journal also features historiographic essays and reviews of books, films, exhibitions, and Web sites. Its ongoing initiative in internationalization places American history in a global context, and its new “Teaching the JAH” Web project brings the latest scholarly research into the U.S. history classroom. The Journal’s Recent Scholarship bibliography is now available to OAH members as an online searchable database. |
June 2005, Vol. 92, No. 1
From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands
In the early years of contact between Europeans and Indians, women often mediated between cultures. Scholars have examined extraordinary women such as Pocahontas and Sacagawea who acted as cross-cultural emissaries, but this emphasis on women’s agency has obscured the more coercive traffic in women that was central to Indian-European relations. Juliana Barr illuminates this darker side by exploring how some Indian women, exchanged as captives and slaves, became political and economic pawns in relations among Indian, Spanish, and French men in the borderlands of colonial America. She uses the Indian slave trade to explicate geopolitical relations among European and native powers and to expand our vision of Indian women, to portray them as not only negotiators but also victims of change.
The Edwardsean Tradition and the Antislavery Debate, 1740–1865
Kenneth P. Minkema and Harry S. Stout show the contradictory ways a theological tradition deriving from Jonathan Edwards entered into the American debate over slavery for nearly a century. Edwards, the mid-eighteenth-century revivalist and philosopher, owned slaves and accepted the institution. But in the era of the American Revolution, younger ministers proclaimed that Edwards’s ideas of “true virtue” and “disinterested benevolence” damned slavery. After the Revolution, the Edwardseans moved away from this radical emancipationist stance and preached that Edwards’s teachings required tolerance of slavery. In this century-long survey, Minkema and Stout highlight the radical and conservative uses of an important theological tradition.
The New African American Inequality
Using U.S. Census data from the University of Minnesota’s Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (ipums), Michael B. Katz, Mark J. Stern, and Jamie J. Fader show that the nature of black inequality fundamentally changed after World War II. Although most of the pervasive, overt racial exclusion in work, education, and politics that marked the Jim Crow system faded during the late twentieth century, racism and racial inequality did not. What stands out about the new pattern of inequality is internal differentiation. Inequality among African Americans now proceeds through a series of screens that filter them into more or less promising statuses, progressively dividing them by class and gender along lines full of implications for their economic futures.
Taiwan Expendable? Nixon and Kissinger Go to China
Richard M. Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s effort to normalize U.S. relations with China is often hailed as a brilliant act of diplomacy. Nancy Bernkopf Tucker argues that, although normalization was in the American national interest, Nixon and Kissinger paid an unnecessarily high price. In surrendering Taiwan’s rights and interests without consulting Taipei, they undermined America’s integrity, credibility, and diplomacy. Because they feared Americans would bridle at their concessions, they relied on secrecy to control events and the historical record. Using recently declassified documents and tapes as well as interviews and oral histories, Tucker reveals that when the promises of Nixon and Kissinger could not be kept, both China and Taiwan felt betrayed.
Heterosexual White Male: Some Recent Inversions in American Cultural History
Daniel Wickberg examines one of the major transformations in American social and cultural historiography over the past thirty years—the shift to writing about the histories of dominant and privileged identity categories such as whiteness, heterosexuality, and masculinity. While the influence of cultural studies and various forms of cultural theory on American historical writing have been widely observed, Wickberg argues that subfield specialization has obscured the broader links between the new social history of the 1970s and the new cultural history that grew out of it. Both an intellectual history of recent historical thinking, and a critical assessment of the coherency of the histories of masculinity, whiteness, and heterosexuality, this essay provides a unified understanding of a wide and diverse body of contemporary historiography.
Other Issues
March 2005, Vol. 91, No. 4
September 2005, Vol. 92, No. 2
December 2005, Vol. 92, No. 3