Process: A Blog for American History
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Process is the blog of the Organization of American Historians, The Journal of American History, and The American Historian, dedicated to exploring the process of doing history and the multifaceted ways of engaging with the U.S. past.
Process: A Blog for American History
2M ago
The December issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in print. Included are articles by Trent MacNamara, Tracey Deutsch, Natasha Zaretsky and Aaron Hall’s Editor’s Choice article, “Bad Roads: Building and Using a Carceral Landscape in the Plantation South.” The articles cover a range of topics, including imaginings of the ..read more
Process: A Blog for American History
3M ago
Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on sensory history. We are open to a variety of themes relating to sensory history as both a methodology and a field and its intersections with various subfields of U.S. history, including histories of law, age, gender, disability studies, sport, and the environment. Articles might be ..read more
Process: A Blog for American History
3M ago
Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on the elderly in U.S. history. While there is a vast array of histories relating to youth culture, children, and young adults in the United States, there are fewer comparable studies on the history of elderly culture and their impact on American society. We are open ..read more
Process: A Blog for American History
4M ago
Nothing motivates me to write as much as anger. My June 2024 Journal of American History article, “‘Bring Money’: The Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure, and the Racialized Geography of the United States,” is a case in point. For quite some time, I have been troubled by the mythology of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ..read more
Process: A Blog for American History
4M ago
The emergence of student loan debt in the late 1960s can be situated within a broader shift towards neoliberal governance, which relies on market incorporation as a means of providing access to basic social provisions, like housing, health care, and education. One way I have begun to examine the emergence of student loan debt is ..read more
Process: A Blog for American History
5M ago
This piece is a response to our call for submissions, Histories of Sport. For our submission guidelines, click here. In June, I attended Major League Baseball’s (MLB) London Series—one of MLB’s many attempts to expand its fanbase. Baseball (or at least its modern, American version) has never been particularly popular in the United Kingdom, despite numerous ..read more
Process: A Blog for American History
5M ago
To this day, many in the United States recall the 1950s as the height of the era of “better living through chemistry.”[1] But it was also the moment when much of the public started to worry, in earnest, about whether the growing number of synthetic chemicals in food, water, air, and the earth were doing ..read more
Process: A Blog for American History
6M ago
The September issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in print. Included are articles by Myisha S. Eatmon, Simon Balto, Maggie Elmore, and Michaela Kleber’s Editor’s Choice article, “‘No cause for distrust’: Gender Plurality in Illinois-French First Contacts.” The pieces cover a range of subjects, including the use of tort ..read more
Process: A Blog for American History
6M ago
This piece is a response to our call for submissions, Celebrating Combahee at Fifty: Black Feminism, Socialism, Race, and Sexuality. For our submission guidelines, click here. The use of the wave metaphor for describing feminism has been criticized for suggesting unified progression across the Women’s Movement and fixing activism to chronological moments in time.[1] The wave ..read more
Process: A Blog for American History
7M ago
This piece is a response to our Call for Submissions: Histories of Political Protest in the U.S. For our submission guidelines, click here. While the literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance are correctly celebrated as intellectuals and activists, jazz musicians of the time were not extended similar credit despite frequenting some of the same clubs ..read more