On First View from our Special Issue on the United States' 250th: "Commemoration, Creation, and Sounding the Nation’s Future at St. Louis’s Bicentennial Horizons of American Music" by Billy Coleman. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View: Joe Merton's article, "'We’re Giving People a Choice': Civilian Crime Prevention, Consumer Citizenship, and the Transformation of 1970s and 1980s New York City." Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View!

Nathan Cardon@ncardon.bsky.social · 3w ago

My new article in @modamhist.bsky.social is out now in first view and open access and is a preview of chapter 6 of the 'The World Awheel' (@columbiaup.bsky.social). It's a story of American mobility, femininity, and power in the spaces of European empires. doi.org/10.1017/mah....

“The Historical Paths to and from Wong Kim Ark,” originally published in @modamhist.bsky.social: Read the intro by Hardeep Dhillon, @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, @migrantherstory.bsky.social, Heather Ruth Lee, Anna Pegler-Gordon & @irpinaingiro.bsky.social :

The Historical Paths to and from Wong Kim Ark - Public Books

“The decision in Wong Kim Ark’s case marked the culmination of a three-year legal battle and reflected two decades of sustained efforts to deny citizenship to the U.S.-born children of Chinese…

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Amid the recent Supreme Court decision upholding Birthright Citizenship, learn more about the historical debate from 5 scholars: @migrantherstory.bsky.social, @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, @irpinaingiro.bsky.social, , Heather Ruth Lee, and Anna Pegler-Gordon. Intro and essays linked below:

New from our special issue on the U.S.'s 250th: "Making Protest Patriotic Again: The Peoples Bicentennial Commission and America’s 200th Anniversary in 1976" by M. Todd Bennett, which examines a New Left group founded in 1971 to provide an alternative to official celebrations of 1776.

Did you present at #SHAFR2026 and recieve good feedback on your project? Consider submitting an article to Modern American History. Email MAH@cambridge.org if you have questions.

New from our special issue on the U.S. 250th! "A Commemoration in Washington or a Commemoration for Washington? The Federal Government and the DC Bicentennial Assembly" by @mjrp.bsky.social. It examines DC Bicentennial Assembly's planning in the early 1970s and the Nixon administration’s response

Now out from our special issue for the bicentennial! "'The Second American Revolution': Murray Rothbard and the Libertarians Imagine the U.S. Founding" by Jennifer Depew. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On First View from our special issue on the U.S. 250th! "Thinning the Nation? The 1976 Bicentennial and the Politics of Revolutionary Memory in a Neoliberal Age" by @thomascryer.bsky.social, which considers commemorative occasions not as political sideshows but as key formative moments.

Due tomorrow!

Modern American History@modamhist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Announcement: We are now accepting submissions for the Fourth Annual Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips Essay Prize. Ph.D. candidates and early-career contingent instructors are invited submit until June 15. Details below:

feel like you need to bone up on imperial presidencies, federal oversight of D.C. and commemorative planning? I have an article for you! Open access as part of @modamhist.bsky.social's forthcoming special issue on the 250th www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We've got some terrific pieces rolling out at @modamhist.bsky.social on the 1976 bicentennial celebrations. Here's a great one from Jennifer Depew on the libertarian vision for America's 200th:

Attention graduate students and early career historians: Essay prize submissions due in 10 days!

Modern American History@modamhist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Announcement: We are now accepting submissions for the Fourth Annual Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips Essay Prize. Ph.D. candidates and early-career contingent instructors are invited submit until June 15. Details below:

Congratulations to @eladiobobadilla.com on his new book "Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights." MAH featured him in our relaunch of Paul Kramer's “Power and Connection: Imperial Histories of the United States in the World." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to share my latest article in @modamhist.bsky.social. Focuses on a top-secret Army dog-training project that used Japanese Americans as live bait during World War II.

Now up on First View! "'We All Won That Fight': U.S. Empire and Military Labor in the Battle of Guadalcanal" by Holger Droessler, which looks at how Solomon Islanders assisted Allied soldiers during WWII as construction workers, local scouts, & messengers. Read: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Inside MAH's special issue: a Take Three on the presence of rivers in modern American history with analyses from Jon Coleman, Scot McFarlane, and Ellen Griffith Spears Links below!

Inside MAH's special issue: a Forum on Water and the Modern United States, featuring contributions from Martin V. Melosi, Joanna L. Dyl, David Stradling, Sarah R. Hamilton, and Maarten Zwiers All of these pieces demonstrate the importance of water in understanding US history Links below!

Inside MAH's special issue: "War for the Water: The Environmental Origins of Conflict Between Shrimp Fishers and Vietnamese Refugees on the Texas Coast" by Thomas Blake Earle shows the role of marine ecology in conflicts between Texan white & Vietnamese fishers in the 1970s & 80s. Link below!

Inside MAH's special issue: "Afterlives of an American Waterscape: The Urban Ditch in the Long Twentieth Century" by Michael Holleran explores how nineteenth-century water supply systems in the U.S. West persisted into the twentieth century. Link below!

Inside MAH's special issue: "Where the Dumps that Used to Be Ponds Used to Be: Urbanization and Waste in Providence, Rhode Island (United States)" by Samia W. Cohen explores how industrial waste management strategies continue to shape hydrological conditions today Link below!

Announcement: We are now accepting submissions for the Fourth Annual Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips Essay Prize. Ph.D. candidates and early-career contingent instructors are invited submit until June 15. Details below:

In the latest special issue of MAH, Sam Hege's photoarticle, "The Subterranean Sublime: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Making of a Visual Politics of Groundwater," explores the effects of power and capital on groundwater through the history of the Ogallala Aquifer Link below!

Did you present at #OAH2026 and receive good feedback on your research? Consider submitting an article to Modern American History! Email MAH@Cambridge.org with any questions.

We appreciate our board members and all of their support!

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We had our annual board meeting for @modamhist.bsky.social this morning, so let me remind you that Modern American History is a first-rate, open access journal that puts out some incredible work. If you're not following them here, what the hell.

Are you attending OAH this year? Come join MAH on Saturday for a panel on "Animals in Modern American History" with Susan Nance, Thomas Andrews, @kclement.bsky.social, Tyler Parry, Andrea Ringer, and Dan Vandersommers. Links below to this fascinating forum!

In our special issue on A Water's History of the United States, a new Soapbox from guest editors Gaetano Di Tommaso and @dariofazzi.bsky.social makes the case for centering water in histories of the United States, arguing that water was a driving force in American history.

A special issue of Modern American History, A Water's History of the United States, with Roosevelt Institute for American Studies guest editors Gaetano Di Tommaso and @dariofazzi.bsky.social, is now live!

New publication! Very excited to share that my article, "Are You My Kimchi Mother? Asian Officers, American Women, and Cold War Military Training," has been published open access in Modern American History. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...