The March issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in print. Included are articles by 2024 Louis Pelzer Award winner Jordan Villegas-Verrone, Devin Kennedy, 2024 David Thelen Award Winner Alexandre Guilherme da Cruz Alves Junior, and Jessica Adler's Editor's Choice articl

Process: a blog for american history

23.05.2025

Making Sense of History, Then and Now

Imagine writing on a topic you know well but relying on a method that has yet to bear a widely accepted name to write it. I found myself in precisely this position in the late 1990s when I first started delving into what was sometimes called “histories of the senses” and gradually came to be known a

Process: a blog for american history

04.06.2025

Call for Papers: Nuclear History

As we approach the eightieth anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on nuclear history. We are open to a wide variety of topics. This could include pieces that consider resource extraction and capitalism; the environmen

Process: a blog for american history

06.06.2025

Public Roads in the Slave State Archive

In my December 2024 JAH article, I wrote about the history of “bad roads” in the time and space of American slavery. The article examined the making, repair, uses, meanings, and effects of ordinary public ways that ran throughout the South. These public roads were not big-name projects involving int

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What’s in the March Issue of the Journal of American History?

Making Sense of History, Then and Now

Call for Papers: Nuclear History

Public Roads in the Slave State Archive

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