Search

A personal narrative is presented which focuses on public writing both in and out of the history education setting.

The article discusses the historiography of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and the themes explored in Lincoln studies. The author cites the book "Lincoln," by Professor David Herbert Donald and explains that since its publication in 1995, there have been about 20 books a year published on Lincoln. The author also cites the essay: "Has the Lincoln Theme Been Exhausted?," by J.G. Randall. Subjects of the article also include the release of Lincoln's personal and presidential papers in 1947, the professional era in Lincoln studies, and the studies of Lincoln's relationship with Ann Rutledge. Works mentioned in the article include "The Young Eagle," by Kenneth J. Winkle, "Honor's Voice," by Douglas Wilson, and "Lincoln's Melancholy," by Joshua Wolf Shenk. Technological sources are also detailed.

The article focuses on reimagining writing in history courses. The authors discuss their experiences teaching history, examine the importance of writing in history education, and explore how creative writing can benefit students in composition and historical analysis.

The article discusses technological resources concerning U.S. history during the time of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and how to interpret them. The author discusses patterns within primary sources of this period, including newspapers and telegraphs, which help researchers understand public opinion. The article details the most commonly used words in four Northern and Southern newspapers between April 1861 and April 1865. The article provides several photographic examples of language patterns during the U.S. Civil War.

Lists dissertations on American history published from January to April 1993. African Americans; Agriculture and rural history; Business and economics; Civil War and reconstruction; Education; Environment; Family; Gay and lesbian history; Immigration, ethnicity and internal migration; Indians; Intellectual and cultural history; International relations; Labor; Legal and constitutional history; Mass communications; More.

The article focuses on college students and their experiences with writing history essays. They authors compare their college experiences, discuss how writing is history, and explore the relationship between writing and thinking.

A personal narrative is presented which focuses on the research essay as a means to engage students with effective history assignments.

The article focuses on the importance of historians and how the way in which we study history has changed since the beginning of the 20th century. The author discusses a presidential address given by Carl Becker to the American Historical Association in 1931 titled "Everyman His Own Historian" and explores how it relates to representation in history, the discipline of history, and the profession of history.

A review of the exhibition “Remembering the American Revolution, 1776-1890” held at the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., held from October 9, 2015 to September 3, 2016, is presented.

An essay is presented which discusses the U.S. Southern States prisoners' civil rights movement from the 1960s through the 1990s, commenting on the historiography of mass incarceration in the U.S. (referred to as the carceral state) and the legal struggles of prisoners. An overview of prisoners' lawsuits over their prison conditions, including the Texas prisoner class-action civil rights lawsuit "Ruíz v. Estelle," is provided.

An essay is presented on the historiography of the Enlightenment in the U.S., focusing on aspects of intellectual and cultural history as well as political and religious history. It comments on studies on radicalism and the field of Atlantic history. Anti-Enlightenment political culture and aspects of skepticism, deism, and atheism are also considered.

An essay on the field of the history of conservatism in the U.S. is presented, focusing on histories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries written since the 1990s. It examines conservatives' anticommunism and opposition to civil rights and comments on the role of women. The author explores studies written from the frameworks of economic history, intellectual history, and suburban studies. Questions of conservatism's origins and legacies are also considered.

The article presents an exploration into the black power movement of the 1960s, its impact and significance on 20th century U.S. social history, and the state of scholastic interest on the subject in the early 21st century. Discussion is given reviewing the historiography of the African American civil rights movement and noting increasing attention to black power as a distinct and central element of the movement rather than as a fringe aspect of it. A review of works by several historians who have contributed to the study of the movement is also given, including Clayborne Carson, Timothy Tyson, and William L. Van Deburg.

The article discusses what contemporary studies on U.S. President Abraham Lincoln reveal about him as a politician before and during the U.S. Civil War. The author evaluates the essay "Lincoln 2.0," by Matthew Pinsker, published within the issue, and also mentions the book "American Brutus," by Michael W. Kauffman. Subjects of the article also include the digital reproduction of manuscript collections, Lincoln's first speech when he became president, and his involvement with the Young Indians, a group of Whigs.

The article discusses the Wide Awakes, a revolutionary political organization of young men formed in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut. The Wide Awakes were in favor of the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln and were the first major campaign organization to adopt a military motif. The author examines the Wide Awakes as a symbol of the organizational strength and uniformity of the Republican Party. The article also discusses how the election of Lincoln helped begin the U.S. Civil War and how southerners perceived the Wide Awakes. The historiography of the Wide Awakes is also talked about. Subjects of the article also include how the Wide Awakes fostered competition, employed appealing symbols, and engendered mass participation.

The article discusses the historiography and evolution of studies of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The author talks about how declining sales in the publishing industry are affecting university presses. The author also suggests different approaches to Lincoln studies, including biographies of neglected figures. Another suggested field of study is the demonization of Lincoln during his own time. Inconsistencies in Lincoln studies are also mentioned. The article "Lincoln 2.0," by Matthew Pinsker, published within the same issue, is frequently cited.

The article discusses the historiography of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The author discusses how Lincoln overshadowed George Washington, the first U.S. president, as the central figure of American democracy. The article talks about how historical interest in Lincoln increased and decreased throughout the 20th century, and how interest in Progressivism waned at the same time. The author explains how Lincoln studies in the late 20th century became dominated by nonacademics or academics seeking a popular audience. Works mentioned in the article include "With Malice Toward None," by Stephen B. Oates, "Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858," by Albert J. Beveridge, and "Lincoln and the Bible," by Clarence E. Macartney.

The article responds to a preceding essay by Thomas W. Zeiler on the state of U.S. diplomatic history as a field, and its re-entry into the mainstream of historical study through an increased focus on international history, or the study of the United States in the global context. The author takes issue with Zeiler's focus on the centrality of the state and state power, and with the idea that diplomatic historians have led their own field back to the mainstream. She argues that in many ways they were pushed by other subdisciplines, such as ethnic, postcolonial, borderlands, transnational, and world history.

An essay is presented that discusses the history of sight in the U.S. It describes the historiography of visual history, arguing that sight is over-privileged in historical narratives. The author argues that human perception involves more than just vision and attempts to restructure modern historiography by demonstrating that perception is a multisensory phenomena mediated through sight.

Information about an online discussion between U.S. social historians regarding the study of digital history is presented. Subjects under discussion include the definition of digital history, primary sources such as blogs, web sites, email, music, historic images, film clips, databases, and the Google project to digitize books.

An essay is presented that discusses the history of taste in the United States. It describes how the sensory experience of people living in the past helps to understand the social and cultural context of the periods in question. Subjects under discussion include the relationship of food to industrialization, the relationship between cuisine and national identity, and the relation between consumption practices and personal identity.

An essay is presented that discusses the historiography and history of sound in the U.S. It describes how problems related to the methodology of sonic history prevent the accurate historical reporting of sound. The author suggests that sonic history can be told more accurately by paying more attention to primary sources. Subjects under discussion include the nature of oral tradition, the relation of sound to vision, and the history of sound among 17th- and 18th-century Puritans in New England.

The author responds to the article "Mind and Matter--Cultural Analysis in American Military History: A Look at the State of the Field," by Wayne E. Lee. The author considers Lee's views in the context of the coverage of military history of the West in Asia in such wars as World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Farrell feels that the traditional methods of studying these wars were forced to take into consideration the cultures, societies, and world views of the times. The Cold War forced new methodologies into the study of war to better understand vastly different cultural and social phenomena.

Analyzes the origin of the U.S. Civil War. Effect of the civil war on the U.S. social structure; Methods in Civil War historiography; Issues on the independence of Texas; Speculations on the presidency of Henry Clay.

Examines the combination of both expansion and exceptionalism in early U.S. history. Transition from early America to early U.S. republic; Dispute among early Americanists over scholarship; Connections between early U.S. and British or imperial historiographies.

Reflects on experiences in writing essays in the U.S. Views on submitting articles to a magazine; Experiences in writing about feminism; Opinion on the significance of feminism in history writing.

Presents a classroom exercise concerning environmental historiography in the United States. Alliance and disagreement between John Muir, founder of Sierra Club and Gifford Pinchot, first chief of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture; Details on the classroom exercise; Objective of the activity.

Suggests how United States (US) professionalization cut off transnational and comparative alternatives even as some history professionals aimed for global reach. Nonacademic and specialized discourses of US history; Themes of scientific history; Scientific historians' contribution to scholarship; Phases of US historiography.

Opinion. Explains how John Adams's integrity and memory might recall a conversation with Thomas Jefferson in the United States Congress, concerning which of them should draft the Declaration of Independence, 1817, that Jefferson denied had ever took place. Information on Adams and Jefferson; Why the disparities between Adam's and Jefferson's accounts of Jefferson's selection is confusing; What is cited as the most useful discovery of memory researchers.

Presents information on the seminar `Research Methods in U.S. History' for students beginning dissertations. Details on guest speakers at the seminar; Focus of the seminar; Information on the syllabus.

Presents information on an essay which looked at eighteenth-century Anglo-American historiography on the eve of the American Revolutionary War, that is based on an article by Edmund S. Morgan, entitled `The American Revolution.' Morgan's observations regarding Americans' perception of English historiography; Reference from Sir Lewis Namier, a political historian; Indepth look at the history of the American people.

Discusses the results of a survey on the experiences and perspectives on the practice of American history conducted by the `Journal of American History.' Strengths and weaknesses of historical practice; Effect of historians' political commitments on scholarships; Statements about scholarships and the academic social system; Content of American history; Personal fulfillment.

Examines the issues of objectivity, status, communication media and audience as applied to the museum field and the discipline of history. Essay `The Authority of Documents at Some American History Museums,' by Eric Gable and Richard Handler; Interpretive programs of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Competing goals of public accessibility and scholarly excellence.

Studies history museum employees' understanding of the relationship of fact, myth and documentation and on how those understandings reflect their position in the bureaucratic hierarchy. Ethnographic research at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Institutions' difficulty in practicing constructionist historiography; Relationship between production of museum's history and its corporate structure.

Describes the form of a future American history with only a slight anticipation of its content. Intention as a design for education in which fragmentation is reduced; Encouragement for young historians to choose and to begin to work toward a long-term goal; Readjustments needed in research priorities to regain a national focus on culture.

Discusses the development of American history in Russia. Count Alexis de Tocqueville's works on the United States translated into Russian in the 19th century; No deep traditions of American history in Russia until the middle of the 20th century; Interest in American political system, agrarian history, history of education; Similar problems in Russia that led to the interest; Soviet scholars portrayal of America as persistent enemy; Positive aspects of Soviet interpretations.

Discusses the importance of drawing foreign scholars and their work into the everyday activities of the `Journal of American History' (JAH). To encourage exploration of alternatives to the narrowed academic conversations in the field; Audiences; Borderlands; Comparisons; More.

Comments on a defense on the labor historiography of the U.S. written by history professor Leon Fink. Use of patriotic rhetoric by labor historians in explaining class conflict; Role of the language of political ideals as a means of overcoming the Commons-Perlman school of thought; Assumption that capitalism is based on atomistic individualism.