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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. |
September 2005, Vol. 92, No. 2
Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620–1960
Elizabeth Reis explores the changing definitions and perceptions of "hermaphrodites" (now called intersex) from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century. Over the course of three centuries, most medical observers agreed that true hermaphrodites did not exist in the human species, and that patients with ambiguous reproductive organs were simply cases of "mistaken sex." The stubborn reality of hermaphrodism, however, challenged the ideal polarity of two sexes and raised questions about what it meant to be male or female. Reis describes the changing ways Americans, particularly physicians, have understood and treated nonconforming bodies to uncover the hidden history of intersex and to explain how Americans naturalized the norms of sex and gender.
Did Democracy Cause the Recession That Led to the Constitution?
Revising questions that Charles Beard raised in 1913, Woody Holton offers a new economic interpretation of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. He connects debate about the Constitution with disputes about the political causes of the recession of the 1780s. One line of thought blamed the recession on an excess of democracy, manifested in state legislatures’ willingness to forgive debts and taxes. Such policies discouraged investment, proponents of limiting popular rule argued. Critics of this explanation excoriated the high state taxes intended to pay interest to owners of government bonds for discouraging economic effort by artisans and farmers. Holton uses this nearly forgotten labor-based analysis to challenge assumptions that the tumult of the 1780s shows the dangers of democracy.
‘The Bourgeoisie Will Fall and Fall Forever’: The New-York Tribune, the 1848 French Revolution, and American Social Democratic Discourse
Adam-Max Tuchinsky surveys the antebellum history of Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune to explore the social unease and contradictory impulses that gave rise to an American liberal tradition. The Tribune was both an organ for Republican champions of bourgeois property rights and America’s most influential reform newspaper. In its pages some writers formulated a social democratic ideology that showed a profound ambivalence toward the spread of market individualism and industrial capitalism. Tuchinsky uses the Tribune’s two-decade-long discussion of socialism, class, property, and the right to labor to illuminate the nature, origin, and complexity of Republican ideology on the eve of the Civil War.
From Tuskegee to Togo: The Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton
Cotton was central to the economy, culture, and politics of the United States and the Western world throughout the long nineteenth century. Sven Beckert shows how cotton linked the United States to the world by telling an unlikely story that brings together cotton, civilization, and colonialism. In 1901, four cotton experts chosen by Booker T. Washington traveled from Tuskegee, Alabama, to the German colony of Togo, where German textile manufacturers and the colonial government wanted them to teach American agricultural techniques to local peasants. Detailing the tense relationship of German colonialists, African American cotton experts, and Ewe farmers, the article explores both changes in world cotton production after emancipation in the United States and the emergence of new ideas about Africa, Africans, and people of African heritage in a transnational space.
Westbrook Pegler and the Anti-union Movement
In the late 1930s, Westbrook Pegler, a controversial and popular columnist, dramatically unmasked the organized-crime ties of two top union leaders. He used those revelations to justify a campaign against union corruption, which he attributed to the Wagner Act. Pegler’s arguments led the Republican party to adopt opposition to union abuses as a central campaign theme and helped place anti-unionism at the center of the conservative response to the New Deal. David Witwer uses Pegler’s exposé of union corruption to offer a new perspective on modern American conservatism and to highlight the role of the news media in shifting the political landscape and shaping the public agenda.
Interchange: History in the Professional Schools
Perhaps more than any other academic field, history is practiced all across the campus. Nearly every college and university has a history department, but few of those departments contain all the historians in their institutions. The social sciences, the language departments, and the arts and humanities pay serious attention to history. Even professional schools, which are physically, bureaucratically, and intellectually far removed from colleges of arts and sciences, always pay some attention to history and often have a historian or two on their faculties. The experience of those historians, the scholars and teachers who practice history in professional schools, is the subject of this edition of "Interchange."
Other Issues
March 2005, Vol. 91, No. 4
June 2005, Vol. 92, No. 1
December 2005, Vol. 92, No. 3