Articles in bold below are now available online and free to access.

Research Articles

• World War I in the Historical Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois, Chad Williams

         An analysis of how the global conflict haunted the work of one leading African American intellectual

• “The Edge of the Abyss”: The Origins of the Israel Lobby, 1949-1954, Doug Rossinow

         A recreation of American Jewish mobilization in the wake of a West Bank massacre.

• The Spirit of Black Lake: Full Employment, Civil Rights, and the Forgotten Early History of Environmental Justice, Josiah Rector

        An exploration of environmental activists’ engagement with economics and racial politics in the 1970s.

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Forum: Modern American History  Big picture reflections on the field’s defining themes, problems, and stakes

• The Social-Ethnography Tradition, Daniel T. Rodgers
• Asian American History and the Perils of a Usable Past, Madeline Y. Hsu
• Crude Reality, Adam Rome
• Our Political Narratives, Kim Phillips-Fein
• Pluralism, Secularism, and Religion in Modern American History, Leigh E. Schmidt
• War as a Way of Life, Michael Sherry
• The Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, Regina Kunzel
• Understanding Race as a Relational Concept, Natalia Molina
• The History of Capitalism and the Eclipse of Optimism, Philip Scranton 
• The End of the Second Reconstruction, Kevin K. Gaines

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Q&A: The Writer's Studio with Linda Gordon A conversation about research, writing, and the craft of history.

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Take Three:  The Moon Landing

July 20, 1969.  One event.  Three perspectives.

• Twilight of Empire, Daniel Immerwahr
• Nixoning the Moon, Kathryn Cramer Brownell
• Grounding the Space Race, Neil M. Maher

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Into the Stacks

Richard Wright, Bandung, and the Poetics of the Third World, Mark P. Bradley
A review of books about decolonization in light of a new collection tracing one African American author’s experiences in 1950s Indonesia.