The Journal of American History Podcast

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Kelly Lytle Hernandez, associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Heather Ann Thompson, professor of history at the University of Michigan. In this episode they discuss the JAH special issue, "Historians and the Carceral State."

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History speaks with Christian G. Appy, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In this episode they discuss Professor Appy's new book American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity.

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of Journal of American History, speaks with Rachel Hope Cleves, Associate Professor of History at the University of Victoria. In this episode they discuss her article, "What, Another Female Husband?": The Prehistory of Same-Sex Marriage in America which appears in the March 2015 issue of the JAH.

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Michael J. Pfeifer, author of "At the Hands of Parties Unknown? The State of the Field of Lynching Scholarship", a State of the Field essay appearing in the December 2014 issue of the JAH.

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of Journal of American History, speaks with Anne Sarah Rubin, Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. In this episode they discuss her new book, Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory. Her online exploration of Sherman's March can be found at www.shermansmarch.org.

Stephen Andrews talks with Alan Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American History at the University of Virginia and the author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832. In this podcast they discuss how the institution of slavery, enslaved people, and white Virginians were affected by the experience of the American Revolution and the War of 1812. (Recorded in June 2014.)

Stephen Andrews, managing editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Barbara Young Welke, University of Minnesota, author of The Cowboy Suit Tragedy: Spreading Risk, Owning Hazard in the Modern American Consumer Economy. Her article appears in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of American History.

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Susan L. Carruthers, Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark, author of "Produce More Joppolos": John Hersey's A Bell for Adano and the Making of the "Good Occupation". Her article appears in the March 2014 issue of the Journal of American History.

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Richard Rubin, author of The Last of the Doughboys, The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War. You can read more about the author and the book at http://www.richardrubinonline.com/.

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Etienne Benson, author of "The Urbanization of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the United States". His article appears in the December 2013 issue of the JAH.

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Paul Sutter, author of "The World With Us: The State of American Environmental History", a State of the Field essay appearing in the June 2013 issue of the JAH.

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with a panel about the OAH's report examining the practice and presentation of American history in the National Park Service and at its sites. Participants include: Dave Thelen, Indiana University (Emeritus) and one of the report authors; Anne Mitchell Whisnant, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and one of the report authors; Katie Bliss, National Park Service; Seth Bruggeman, Temple University; Todd Moye, University of North Texas; Cathy Stanton, Tufts University; and Julia Washburn, National Park Service.

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Sarah Miller-Davenport, doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago and author of "Their blood shall not be shed in vain": American Evangelical Missionaries and the Search for God and Country in Post-World War II Asia. Her work appears in the March 2013 issue of the Journal of American History.

Ed Linenthal speaks with James G. Blight, CIGI Chair in Foreign Policy Development and Professor at Balsillie School of International Affairs and with Janet Lang, Research Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. They discuss the reexamination of the Cuban missile crisis and their book projects found at http://www.armageddonletters.com/

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Tyler Anbinder, Professor of History at George Washington University and author of "Moving Beyond Rags to Riches" New York's Famine Irish Immigrants and Their Surprising Savings Accounts. His work appears in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of American History.