News and insights from @cambUP_History's journal Modern American History, devoted to all aspects of American history since the 1890s.

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Welcome to the @ModAmHist Features tour! Over the coming weeks, we will be exploring each feature, from Into the Stacks to Photoarticles and more. Keep your eyes peeled for our first one... #MAHFeaturesTour
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How have I not come across @ModAmHist before last night? Full of so much interesting stuff. First up, a very strong recommendation for this essay by Julia Brown-Bernstein on deindustrialization in LA. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Good morning Kansas City! We’re ready for #2024SHA
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Replying to @HOTCUS
@HOTCUS awarded their 2024 Article Prize to @nicholasggrant's MAH Soapbox! It's a must read from 6.3. Huge congrats to Nicholas and thanks to HOTCUS, we are thrilled! cambridge.org/core/journals/…
We are happy to announce that the winner of the HOTCUS 2024 Article Prize is Nicholas Grant (University of East Anglia) for their article “Patriotism and Black Internationalism” published in Modern American History (@ModAmHist) The committee shared the following commendation:(1)
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Great to see our forum on US military humanitarianism out with @ModAmHist! It’s been fun working with @BrianDrohan @juliairwin @elisabmpiller and @AdamSeipp first on a roundtable for @SHAFRConference and then as this forum. Check it out here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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🚨 Calling all PhD candidates or early-career contingent instructors 🚨 @ModAmHist are inviting you to submit your article for the Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips Essay Prize 💻Head over to cup.org/42GFsR8 for more details
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@bjschulm's #soapbox piece, "Then (New) American Political Tradition" is hot of the #firstview press! This is the author's copy of the original from high school. #history #politics cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Since 2021, the AHA has written to legislators and school boards in 22 states opposing legislation that would restrict history education. Read the letters and stay up to date with our advocacy work: #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory historians.org/news-and-advo…
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Have you read the latest #MAH? Check out this issue's Featured Article Free to access: 📚 cup.org/3Oubzyq #ModernAmericanHistory #History
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Explore @Gilder_Lehrman resources related to #ColumbusDay and #IndigenousPeoplesDay. They include essays, videos, historical documents, lesson plans, and more! ➡️ ow.ly/Pz9w50PUBcE
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#OAH23 Spotlight: "Preserving Black Pasts: Public Histories of African American Leisure and Recreation" oah.org/meetings-events/oah2… @AlisonRoseJeff1 @andrewkahrl @GMackPhD
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Congratulations to SIS professor Sarah Snyder on being named co-editor of @CambridgeUP’s “Modern American History” journal! Hear her thoughts on this new role and the future of @ModAmHist. youtube.com/watch?v=hcje1qUf…
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Can't wait to read @mfkantor!!!!
📢 BRAND NEW #MAH article has dropped! @mfkantor explores antidrug education program DARE’s growth in the 1980s-90s. DARE divorced drug use from socioeconomic conditions, helping shape an era of carceral growth and social-policy retrenchment. #USHistory doi.org/10.1017/mah.2022.19
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AHHH so proud of our very own @LaurenGutterman & all of the new editorial board members! 😊
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📣 Welcome to our Editorial Board members @LaurenGutterman (@AmStudies) and @ClaudrenaHarold (@UVA_History)! cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Do you want to write for @ModAmHist? 📝📚 Learn more about our submission guidelines here ➡️ cambridge.org/core/journals/… And submit your article here ➡️ mc.manuscriptcentral.com/MAH
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If #Twittershutdown, it'll have been criticised for increasing 'polarisation' in politics. But from abortion to racial and gender progress, is this really 'polarisation' or a changing consensus? Check out @tzimmer_history's @ModAmHist piece below cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Calling #twitterstorians: are you interested in contributing to @ModAmHist? 📝 📚 Learn more about how submission guidelines here ➡️ cambridge.org/core/journals/… And submit your article here ➡️ mc.manuscriptcentral.com/MAH
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Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social retweeted
Calling #twitterstorians: are you interested in contributing to @ModAmHist? 📝📚 Learn more about how submission guidelines here ➡️ cambridge.org/core/journals/… And submit your article here ➡️ mc.manuscriptcentral.com/MAH
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“Dodgers, Delinquents, and What Jackie Robinson Can Teach Us about the Intersection of Sports and the Carceral State” is now available Open Access (Free and open to the public!) S/o @ModAmHist! Happy reading! Link: bit.ly/3S9unTb
🚨NEW PUB ALERT🚨 My new journal article, “Dodgers, Delinquents, and What Jackie Robinson Can Teach Us about the Intersection of Sports and the Carceral State,” is out today in @ModAmHist Read it, share it, teach it. I would love to hear your thoughts! #dodgers #delinquents
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