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OAH Magazine of History Published since 1985, each quarterly issue of the OAH Magazine of History focuses on a theme in U.S. history.

Articles in each issue of the OAH Magazine of History draw upon recent scholarship, survey the historiography, and provide practical teaching strategies. Its goal is to enhance the teaching and presentation of U.S. history in secondary and college classrooms, as well as in public history settings.

07/01/2016
Organization of American Historians

Organization of American Historians

OAH Distinguished Lecturer Andy Mink is offering a free history webinar.

The Churchill Archives for Schools provides an expanding range of classroom-ready resources specially written and developed by leading history educators to engage and excite as well as inform and challenge. Based around four broad topics in modern world history, the Churchill Archive for Schools also offers teachers and students an accessible entry-point to the complete Churchill Archive.

Join us for a free webinar to introduce these materials on Tuesday, January 12 at 7pm EST:
www.cis-publicwebinar.eventbrite.com

K-12 educators can also simply register for free access today: http://www.churchillarchiveforschools.com/about/Churchill-Archive

02/04/2015
University Communications : University of Vermont

University of Vermont associate professor of history and OAH member Felicia Kornbluh speaks on the significance of the 1964 New York World's Fair and the civil rights protest that took place on its opening day. Watch "Forgotten Conflict" here:

Forgotten Conflict 03-02-2015 By University Communications The 1964 New York World’s Fair was meant to showcase America's promise. But its historical significance may lie in the conflict it generated, which erupted on the fair’s opening day. History professor Felicia Kornbluh tells the story.

02/03/2015
Welcome to Process

We have a new blog, Process. Read our introductory post and let us know what you think.

Process is the blog of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), the Journal of American History (JAH), and The American Historian (TAH). For more than a century, the OAH has been the largest ...

22/01/2015

The OAH's quarterly member magazine, The American Historian, is interested in commissioning an essay by a historian of the United States who uses trigger warnings in the classroom. If interested, please e-mail: theamericanhistorian [at] oah [dot] org

21/01/2015
Reviewing Digital History

Head over to The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, where they are featuring an interview with Jeff McClurken about the JAH and digital history peer review.

"Dive in, pilot projects, and do digital work in small batches." Sara Georgini chats with Jeff McClurken of the Journal of American History about getting started in digital history and the changing...

15/12/2014
JAH - December 2014

The December issue of the JAH is in the mail! While you are waiting for it to arrive, you can check out our Editor's Choice article, "At the Hands of Parties Unknown? The State of the Field of Lynching Scholarship," on the JAH web site.

Volume 101, No. 3 (December 2014)

08/12/2014
The American Historian: The American Historian

We invite you to take a peek at our new magazine, The American Historian. We have an "Editor's Choice" article that is available online, as well as web-only content. We'll continue to post updates here from time to time, but if you like what you see, be sure to "like" the Organization of American Historian's page for the most up-to-date information!

The November 2014 issue of The American Historian includes four feature essays focusing on the meaning of historical anniversaries. The issue also includes a state of the field essay on quantitative history, a roundtable discussion on flipped classes, and columns on history podcasting, access to arc…

20/11/2013
October 2013 - Pre-contact America

Pekka Hämäläinen, the Rhodes Professor of American History at of Oxford University, has assembled our final issue on "Pre-contact America."

In reading the October issue, you'll discover that writing and teaching American history before the arrival of Europeans used to be easier. Not long ago this was a history with clearly identifiable protagonists and a compelling story arc bracketed by an unambiguous beginning and ending. It exuded high drama, revolving around the great themes of discovery and survival, and it was preoccupied with timing. Its sources were relatively limited—bones, tools, language—and its practitioners were a self-contained group of archaeologists and anthropologists, whose findings coalesced in the 1960s into a model that seemed carved in stone. The model had simplicity, even a kind of elegance, which many took for proof.

Published since 1985, each quarterly issue of the OAH Magazine of History focuses on a theme in U.S. history. Articles draw upon recent scholarship, survey the historiography, and provide practical teaching strategies. Its goal is to enhance the teaching and presentation of U.S. history in secondary...

15/08/2013
July 2013 - Rethinking the American Past

Have you checked out our latest issue? Our July edition focuses on "Rethinking the American Past." Two decades ago three powerful intellectual, political, and technological currents collided, creating a "perfect storm" that swirled around history education, generally, and the American history survey course, in particular. The explosion of the Internet in the 1990s, the political controversy over the release of National Standards for US History in 1994, and research on historical thinking as a goal for history education left historians and teachers rethinking the purpose, content, and pedagogical possibilities of the US history survey. We invite you to read the July issue of the OAH Magazine to discover the impact these developments have had on the survey course over the past twenty years and to learn what is needed when revising-or creating-the course for today's students.

Published since 1985, each quarterly issue of the OAH Magazine of History focuses on a theme in U.S. history. Articles draw upon recent scholarship, survey the historiography, and provide practical teaching strategies. Its goal is to enhance the teaching and presentation of U.S. history in secondary...

01/05/2013

Currently experiencing technical issues with our web site(s). We appreciate your patience while we sort them out!

17/04/2013
OAH - The Civil War at 150 - Podcast

As a companion to our April issue, Stephen Andrews, managing editor of the OAH Magazine, talks with Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Eberly Professor of Civil War Studies at the University of West Virginia, and consulting editor for the special issue on the "Civil War at 150: Turning Points."

Organization of American Historians, the largest learned society devoted to the study of American History. Publisher of the Journal of American...

17/04/2013
April 2013 - Civil War at 150: Turning Points

We are pleased to announce the availability of the April 2013 issue of the OAH Magazine of History, entitled "Turning Points." This issue is our latest installment in our ongoing commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. Many global histories of the nineteenth century view the Civil War as a turning point of its own. The most common phrasing interprets the war as a watershed in U.S. history, the moment when modern America—democratic, capitalist, militarily robust, and enshrined with a certainty of its righteousness born of victory—came into existence and used that new power to advance its interests around the world.

Published since 1985, each quarterly issue of the OAH Magazine of History focuses on a theme in U.S. history. Articles draw upon recent...

16/01/2013

Over the past few decades, public debates about history have made headlines as “history wars” over school curricula, museum exhibits, politics, and public commemoration. Media coverage suggests that the so-called wars are self-contained units of a broader “culture war” and that the conflict is ongoing and inevitable. What causes history wars? Why do some textbooks or museum exhibits evoke outcry while others do not? Our January 2013 issue of the OAH Magazine of History tackles these questions and more: http://magazine.oah.org/issues/271/

01/11/2012
Teaching the Many Americas of the 1950s

Develop students' historical thinking skills while teaching "1950s America" in our Editor's Choice article, "Teaching the Many Americas of the 1950s" by Karen Dunak. http://ow.ly/eWqrF

Each time I teach the survey of U.S. history since 1877, I show students "A Date with Your Family," a short film produced in 1950.

03/10/2012

Explore the October OAH Magazine of History that focuses on the 1950s. Hitting the mail this week, each of the essays, according to consulting editor Penny Von Eschen, "reveal political and cultural contestation in the midst of the far-reaching processes of suburbanization, militarization, and demographic change that dramatically altered the social and physical landscape of the United States over the course of the 1950s." http://magazine.oah.org/issues/264/

01/08/2012
“His Death Avenged!”: Empowering Students as Historians on a Global Scale

How did the death in 1870 of John R. Bitzer, a Montana frontiersman, serve as a catalyst for a year of classroom discovery for a teacher's AP U.S. history course in China? Bitzer's story--and the violence, vengeance, and vigilantism surrounding it--is featured in our July issue. http://ow.ly/cEIEk

Here he lies; his life cut short, his death avenged.” This cryptic inscription, discovered in a cemetery in Helena, Montana,...

07/06/2012
OAH - Gallery

Check out the gallery of historic images for the first year of our Civil War at 150 project, which focused on the origins of the Civil War. The captions tell some amazing stories.

22/05/2012
OAH - The Civil War at 150 - Podcast

Check out our Civil War at 150 podcast interviews! As always, LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!

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25/04/2012
Noncombatant Military Laborers in the Civil War

The crucial role of noncombatant laborers in the American Civil War is starting to emerge from the shadows, thanks to the work of historians like Thavolia Glymph. Check out her article in our April 2012 issue. And tell us what you think!!!!!

Rejected for command of a volunteer regiment on the grounds that his service as an engineer was needed more, Henry L. Abbot never forgot the perceived slight. Though constantly in the field and once wounded, he had been forced to “suffer for two years the hardship...

04/04/2012
Teaching Civil War Mobilization with Online Primary Sources

The April 2012 issue has arrived! This article by Anne Ward, a high school U.S. history teacher in Amherst, NY, profiles some of the best online sources for teaching about Civil War mobilization. Check it out and let us know what you think.

For most teachers, the prospect of a student research day in the computer lab is enticing— and not only because we get a break. Despite the potential technical and logistical challenges, we understand that student-centered learning can invigorate a dragging unit, ...

29/03/2012
http://www.oah.org/programs/civilwar/from_the_archive/03_MOH-1993-Durrill.pdf

For 150 years historians have analyzed the origins, progression, and impact of the American Civil War. As part of the OAH's project commemorating the war's sesquicentennial, we are presenting selected articles on the evolving perceptions of the war from our archives. Our latest installment, "The Struggle for Black Freedom before Emancipation" by Wayne K. Durrill, originally appeared in the Fall 1993 issue of the OAH Magazine of History.

22/02/2012
How the Men of 'Glory' Stood Up to the U.S. Government

History educator Kevin Levin tells us what we didn't see in the movie Glory (1989) but need to know. An article by Levin about teaching the Civil War with film will appear in our April 2012 issue on the Civil War at 150: Mobilizing for War.

The movie ended with a climactic battle scene. But the all-black regiment went on to fight unjust payment policies -- and won.

26/01/2012
http://magazine.oah.org/issues/261/

Our new January 2012 issue is off the press and available online!

Carl Weinberg's From the Editor column and two other articles (marked Editor's Choice) are freely available to all visitors to the site.

If you aren't an OAH member (and can't get to all the rest of those great articles), please consider joining the OAH!

And let us know what you think of the issue.

09/01/2012
The March On Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project

Who knew that Milwaukee had a rich history of civil rights struggle? Visit this site for a great collection of digitized primary sources that help tell the story:

http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/march/index.cfm

The March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project supports understanding of the struggle for racial equality by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from the collections of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society. The d...

03/01/2012
Segregation in the land of limousine liberalism

Our new January 2012 issue, Beyond Dixie: The Black Freedom Struggle Outside of the South, is at the printer and will soon be available online. Speaking of which, a recent editorial in the New York Times--http://nyti.ms/uRlEqN--brought our attention to the fight against segregation in the New York suburbs of Westchester County. See the Salon article for background and let us know what you think.

Westchester County, N.Y. -- home to celebrities, politicians and business leaders -- fights a landmark court decree

05/12/2011
Membership Categories

The full run of the OAH Magazine of History, from 1985 to the present, is available online through our publishing partner Oxford University Press to OAH members only. That's just one reason why you should consider joining the OAH.

For information on OAH membership:

http://www.oah.org/membership/categories.html

Benefits of membership:

http://www.oah.org/membership/ind_benefits.html

To join online:

https://www.oahsecure.org/apply/start

If you prefer, click here for a printable PDF form to complete and mail to the OAH office with your dues payment. Please direct any questions to printEmail("membership","oah.org"); or by phone at (812) 855-7311.

15/11/2011
Tachau Teacher of the Year Award

Honor a great teacher! Submission deadline is December 1.

It is the policy of the OAH to honor those applicants who submit their applications on or before the stated deadline date. Applications that are not received by close of business on the deadline date will not be considered. The deadlines provided refer to the dates by which each award or prize commi...

01/11/2011
A Lively Seminar on Death: Teaching the Environmental History of the Human Co**se

Given that yesterday was Halloween, we couldn't help bringing your attention to this article, in our latest issue, on environmental history and . . . the human co**se. Let us know what you think!

Over thirty students showed up in the tiny seminar room on the first day. Confusion in the course catalogue meant some arrived expecting to study Iberian trade routes, and others thought our topic would be radical movements. Only a core group of advanced undergrad...

10/10/2011
http://magazine.oah.org/issues/254/

The October 2011 issue is now online! For OAH members and subscribers, the print edition should be rolling off the presses this week. We hope you enjoy the issue.

10/10/2011
29/09/2011
Students’ Knowledge of Civil Rights History Has Deteriorated, Study Finds

Based on a new study, most state teaching standards on the civil rights movement receive a failing grade. But even states that do relatively well ignore the movement "beyond Dixie." Our January 2012 issue on that topic will help. Check out this article for a summary of the situation and a link to the full report.

Ignorance by American students of the basic history of the civil rights movement has worsened, according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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