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The Journal of American History
by Organization of American Historians
The Journal of American History Podcast features interviews with our authors and conversations with authors whose books on American history have won awards. Episodes are in MP3 format and will be released in the month preceding each Journal of American History (February, May, August and November). Published quarterly by the Organization of American Historians, the Journal of American History is the leading scholarly publication in the field of U.S. history and is well known as the major resource for the study, investigation, and teaching of our nation's past. For more information visit our website at http://jah.oah.org/podcast and http://www.oah.org/ or email us at [email protected].
Episodes
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Inside the JAH—Process
Want to learn more about our history blog, Process? Have a short form piece of historical scholarship you want to publish? This special episode features a conversation between Journal of American History assistant editor Amy Ransford, and editorial assistants Jessie Day-Lucore, Hayden Kolowrat…
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Queer Archives in the Digital Age — Panel Debrief from the 2026 OAH Conference
This special OAH conference panel debrief episode features a conversation from the panel, “Queer Archives in the Digital Age,” between Lisa Arellano (Mills Institute, Northeastern University), Anne Rubenstein (York University), Pablo Mitchell (Oberlin College), Tom Hooper (York University), Joy...
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Whispers, Cracks, and Slow History: Honesty and the Historian’s Craft — Panel Debrief from the 2026 OAH Conference
This special OAH conference panel debrief episode features a conversation from the panel, “Whispers, Cracks, and Slow History: Honesty and the Historian’s Craft,” between Marisa J. Fuentes (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), Keiara Price (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), Lori Ginzberg (Penn...
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Teaching Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality History in the Contemporary Classroom — Panel Debrief from the 2026 OAH Conference
This special OAH conference panel debrief episode features a conversation from the panel, “Teaching Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality History in the Contemporary Classroom,” between Nicole Greer Golda (Kennesaw State University), Kelly Marino (Sacred Heart University), Marie Stango (Idaho State...
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U.S. History at 250–Radicalism, Rebellion, and Revolution in the Atlantic World
This special OAH conference panel debrief episode is the final of our U.S. History at 250 series. It features a conversation from the panel, “Radicalism, Rebellion, and Revolution in the Atlantic World,” between Max Flomen (West Virginia University), Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (University of Texas…
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U.S. History at 250–American Revolution International
This special OAH conference panel debrief episode is the third in our U.S. History at 250 series. It features a conversation from the panel, “American Revolution International,” between Honor Sachs (University of Colorado Boulder), Brian DeLay (UC Berkeley), Sarah M. S. Pearsall (Johns Hopkins...
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U.S. History at 250–Native Nations, the Declaration of Independence, and the Revolutionary Era
This special OAH conference panel debrief episode is the second in our U.S. History at 250 series. It features a conversation about “Native Nations, the Declaration of Independence, and the Revolutionary Era” between Elizabeth Ellis (Princeton University), Philip Deloria (Harvard University),...
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U.S. History at 250–Public History and the American Revolution
This special OAH conference panel debrief episode is the first in our U.S. History at 250 series. It features a conversation about “Public History and the American Revolution at 250” between Dr. Karin Wulf (Director of the John Carter Brown Library Director and Professor of History at Brown...
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Reconstructing the American Home: Western Boardinghouses on the Comstock Lode — Nicole Martin
This podcast episode features a conversation between JAH associate editor Dr. Amy Ransford and Dr. Nicole Martin about her recent JAH article “Reconstructing the American Home: Western Boardinghouses on the Comstock Lode” published in the September 2025 issue. Listen to learn more about the...
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Latin America and the Cuban Missile Crisis — a Blogcast Episode
This Blogcast episode features Renata Keller’s blog piece, “Latin America and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” published in Process: A Blog for American History on October 7th, 2025. In this episode, our podcast host, Anna Biesecker-Mast, reads Keller’s piece, which analyzes the variety of Latin...
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Devin Kennedy — Silent Partners: Indirect Investment and Financialization in the United States, 1950–1975
This podcast episode features a conversation between executive editor Stephen Andrews and University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor Devin Kennedy about his recent Journal of American History article, “Silent Partners: Indirect Investment and Financialization in the United States,...
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Jessica Wicks-Allen—Child Apprenticeship and Black Maternal Authority following the Civil War
In this episode, Ph.D. Candidate Kasha Appleton (Indiana University) talks with history professor Dr. Jessica Wicks-Allen (Arizona State University) about Wicks-Allen’s Journal of American History article, “Child Apprenticeship and Black Maternal Authority following the Civil War.” Their...
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Teaching at a Tribal College in Northern Minnesota—a Blogcast Episode
This Blogcast episode features Nick Timmerman’s blog piece “Lessons in History: Teaching at a Tribal College in Northern Minnesota,” first published in Process: A Blog for American History on August 12, 2025. In this episode, Timmerman (a history professor at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community...
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Doing Trans History Despite It All—a Blogcast Episode
This Blogcast episode features Myra Billund-Phibbs’s article “Doing Trans History Despite It All,” first published in Process: A Blog for American History on July 1, 2025. In this episode, Billund-Phibbs (a PhD student at the University of Minnesota) recounts her experience interviewing trans...
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Women, Work, and Food—Special Episode Featuring Lara Vapnek, Tracey Deutsch, and Natasha Zaretsky
In this episode, Lara Vapnek (Professor of History at St. John’s University, in Queens), Tracey Deutsch (Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota), and Natasha Zaretsky (Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham) discuss the interesting intersections of...
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New Histories of Enslavement—Panel Debrief from the 2025 OAH Conference on American History
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on “New Histories of Enslavement,” held at the 2025 OAH Conference on American History in Chicago. In this episode, panel chair Andrea Mosterman (University of New Orleans) and panelists Christy...
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Citizenship and Belonging–Panel Debrief from the 2025 OAH Meeting
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on “Citizenship and Belonging,” held at the 2025 OAH Conference on American History in Chicago. In this episode, panelists Erica Lally (Georgetown University), David Dry (University of North...
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Unsettling Forest Histories—Panel Debrief from the 2025 OAH Conference on American History
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on “Unsettling Forest Histories,” held at the 2025 OAH Conference on American History in Chicago. In this episode, Andrew Needham (New York University), Bathsehba Demuth (Brown University)…
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Queer Histories of the Midwest — Panel Debrief from the 2025 OAH Conference on American History
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on “Queer and Trans Histories of the Midwest,” held at the 2025 OAH Conference on American History in Chicago. In this episode, Marc Ridgell (University of Pennsylvania), Clare Forstie (Saint…
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Inside the JAH - The Book Review Process
How do books get reviewed in the Journal of American History? What criteria do editors use when selecting books for review? How are reviewers assigned, and how can you become one yourself? What constitutes a good book review according to our editors? In this episode of the Journal of American...
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Jessica Adler – Medical Diagnosis and the Contours of the Carceral State
] Editor's note: The person Jessica refers to as "H.M." in the episode is "M.W." in the article. Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaae267 Music: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band's Mabel's Dream, 1923 Facebook: The Journal of American History #JAHCast
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Natasha Zaretsky – Women, Work, and the War on Fatigue
In this episode of the Journal of American History Podcast, Andrew Cooper speaks with Natasha Zaretsky about her article, "The War on Fatigue: Women, Work, and Energy in the 1980s," which appeared in the December 2024 issue of the Journal of American History. Natasha shows how, during the 1980s,...
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Tracey Deutsch – Julia Child and Gendered Labor at Midcentury
In this episode of the Journal of American History Podcast Andrew Cooper speaks with Tracey Deutsch about her article, "The Vigorous Approach to Cooking: Julia Child, Domesticity, and Gendered Labor at Midcentury," which appeared in the December 2024 issue of the Journal of American History.…
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Inside the JAH – The Submission Process
How do you submit an article? What does peer review look like? Why might the JAH accept or reject a piece? What happens after your article has been submitted? In this episode of the Journal of American History Podcast Marina Mecham speaks with Executive Editor Stephen Andrews and Production…
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Lara Vapnek—The Labor of Infant Feeding
In this episode of the Journal of American History Podcast Andrew Cooper speaks with Lara Vapnek about her article, "The Labor of Infant Feeding: Wet-Nursing at the Nursery and Child's Hospital, 1854–1910," which appeared in the June 2022 issue of the Journal of American History. Lara explains…
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Responding to Rape – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History
Over the past two decades, scholars have begun to document the centrality of sexual assault in the U.S. political landscape. There has been significant research on how sexual assault (and anti-rape activism) shaped the long civil rights movement, military occupations, and the dynamics of modern...
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Neither the One nor the Other – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Neither the One nor the Other: The Native South in a Black and White World after 1900," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this episode, Angela P. Hudson, Denise E.…
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Getting the Story Straight – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Getting the Story Straight: Queering Regional Identities," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this episode, La Shonda Mims and Wesley Phelps have a conversation with…
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Missing Histories of Sexual Assault – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Missing Histories of Sexual Assault," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this episode, Katherine Ott, Rebecca Campbell, Lourdes Inoa Monegro, and Royleen J. Ross continue...
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Sovereignties in the Atlantic World – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Sovereignties in the Atlantic World: Black and Indigenous Intersections," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. Historians of Indigenous peoples and historians of the African...
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Queering Work – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Queering Work: LGBT Labor Histories," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this episode, Lane Windham, Alex Melody Burnett, Ryan Patrick Murphy, and Shay Olmstead continue...
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Nursing for the Common Good – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "Nursing for the Common Good: Health Activism, Social Justice, and the History of Nursing Work," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this panel, Kara Dixon Vuic, Cory...
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New Carceral Histories – Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Conference on American History
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on "New Carceral Histories: Legacies of Punishment before the Era of Mass Incarceration," held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History. In this panel, Maile Arvin, Abigail Kahn, Halee...
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On the Map — a Blogcast Episode
This Blogcast Episode features Carleigh Beriont's article, "On the Map," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on December 12, 2023. In this episode, Beriont recovers the hidden history of the Marshall Islands, and how this area "has been central to U.S. security and military...
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Britain Hopkins—The Origins of the Student Loan Industry in the United States
In this episode of the Journal of American History Podcast Stephen Andrews speaks with Britain Hopkins about her article, "The Origins of the Student Loan Industry in the United States: Richard Cornuelle, United Student Aid Funds, and the Creation of the Guaranteed Student Loan Program," which...
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Hesitancy against Hope: Reactions to the First Polio Vaccine — a Blogcast Episode
This Blogcast Episode features Stephen E. Mawdsley's article, "Hesitancy against Hope: Reactions to the First Polio Vaccine," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on January 9, 2024. In this episode, Mawdsley uses the development of the Polio Vaccine to explicate the history...
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Joshua A. McGonagle Althoff—Managing Settlers, Managing Neighbors
In this episode of the Journal of American History Podcast Amy Ransford speaks with Joshua A. McGonagle Altoff about his article, "Managing Settlers, Managing Neighbors: Renarrating Johnson v. McIntosh through the History of Piankashaw Community Building," which appeared in the March 2024 issue…
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Guåhan and the CHamoru People — a Blogcast Episode
This Blogcast Episode features Kristin Oberiano's article, "Guåhan and the CHamoru People," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on October 31, 2023. In this episode, Oberiano shows "how the politics of writing history is inextricable from the moments and movements that shaped...
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Yevan Terrien—Enslavement, Freedom, and Belonging in Early New Orleans
In this episode of the Journal of American History Podcast Steven Andrews speaks with Yevan Terrien about his article, "“Baptiste and Marianne’s Balbásha’: Enslavement, Freedom, and Belonging in Early New Orleans, 1733–1748," which appeared in the September 2023 issue of the Journal of American...
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The Machiavelli of the Mexican American People: Steelworkers, the Catholic Church, and Building Political Power — a Blogcast Episode
This Blogcast Episode features Emiliano Aguilar's article, "The Machiavelli of the Mexican American People: Steelworkers, the Catholic Church, and Building Political Power," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on March 28, 2023. In this episode, Aguilar demonstrates the...
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Digital Queers: How Computers Transformed LGBTQ Life in the United States — a Blogcast Episode
This Blogcast episode features Avery Dame-Griff's article "Digital Queers: How Computers Transformed LGBTQ Life in the United States," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on June 29, 2023. In this episode, Dame-Griff examines how the internet and digital communication created...
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December 2018
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The Journal of American History Podcast features interviews with our authors and conversations with authors whose books on American history have won awards. Episodes are in MP3 format and will be released in the month preceding each Journal of American History (February, May, August and November). Published quarterly by the Organization of American Historians, the Journal of American History is the leading scholarly publication in the field of U.S. history and is well known as the major resource for the study, investigation, and teaching of our nation's past. For more information visit our website at http://jah.oah.org/podcast and http://www.oah.org/ or email us at [email protected].
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