This special OAH conference panel debrief episode features a conversation from the panel, “Whispers, Cracks, and Slow History: Honesty and the Historian’s Craft,” between Marisa J. Fuentes (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), Keiara Price (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), Lori Ginzberg (Penn State), Jenny Shaw (University of Alabama), and Gloria Whiting (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Listen to them reflect on key takeaways from their panel, including the challenging process of uncovering and writing histories of race, family, enslavement, and women.

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This special OAH conference panel debrief episode features a conversation from the panel, “Teaching Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality History in the Contemporary Classroom,” between Nicole Greer Golda (Kennesaw State University), Kelly Marino (Sacred Heart University), Marie Stango (Idaho State University, Maxine Wagenhoffer (Wilson College), and Dana Wiggins (Georgia State University). Listen to them reflect on key takeaways from their panel and share concrete strategies, classroom activities, and advice for teaching women's, gender, and sexuality histories.

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This special OAH conference panel debrief episode is the final of our U.S. History at 250 series. It features a conversation from the panel, “Radicalism, Rebellion, and Revolution in the Atlantic World,” between Max Flomen (West Virginia University), Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (University of Texas at Austin), Margaret Newell (The Ohio State University), Erin Stone (University of West Floria), and Miller Wright (University of Maryland). Listen to hear them discuss shifting geographies and chronologies of the Age of Revolutions, issues of sovereignty and autonomy, and sources and methodologies that historians can bring into the classroom.

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This special OAH conference panel debrief episode is the third in our U.S. History at 250 series. It features a conversation from the panel, “American Revolution International,” between Honor Sachs (University of Colorado Boulder), Brian DeLay (UC Berkeley), Sarah M. S. Pearsall (Johns Hopkins University), Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (University of Southern California), and Christopher L. Brown (Columbia University). Listen to hear them discuss the impact of the world on the American Revolution and future directions of the field.

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This special OAH conference panel debrief episode is the second in our U.S. History at 250 series. It features a conversation about “Native Nations, the Declaration of Independence, and the Revolutionary Era” between Elizabeth Ellis (Princeton University), Philip Deloria (Harvard University), Kathleen DuVal (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Samantha Seeley (University of Richmond). Listen to hear them talk more about Native Nations and the Revolutionary Era.

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This special OAH conference panel debrief episode is the first in our U.S. History at 250 series. It features a conversation about “Public History and the American Revolution at 250” between Dr. Karin Wulf (Director of the John Carter Brown Library Director and Professor of History at Brown University) and Dr. Andrew Davenport (Vice President for Research and Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello). Listen to hear their perspectives on public history and the value of teaching history in the contemporary moment.

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This podcast episode features a conversation between JAH associate editor Dr. Amy Ransford and Dr. Nicole Martin about her recent JAH article “Reconstructing the American Home: Western Boardinghouses on the Comstock Lode” published in the September 2025 issue. Listen to learn more about the important role of boarding houses and boarding house women during Reconstruction in the West. Martin also challenges assumptions about the “home” in the context of rising domesticity and the moral Christian home in the early nineteenth century.

Read Martin’s JAH article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaf098

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This Blogcast episode features Renata Keller’s blog piece, “Latin America and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” published in Process: A Blog for American History on October 7th, 2025. In this episode, our podcast host, Anna Biesecker-Mast, reads Keller’s piece, which analyzes the variety of Latin Americans’ reactions to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Read the blog here: https://www.oah.org/process/keller-latin-america-and-the-cuban-missile-crisis/

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This podcast episode features a conversation between executive editor Stephen Andrews and University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor Devin Kennedy about his recent Journal of American History article, “Silent Partners: Indirect Investment and Financialization in the United States, 1950–1975." Listen to learn more about how exactly Americans were involved in the financialization of the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaae268

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In this episode, Ph.D. Candidate Kasha Appleton (Indiana University) talks with history professor Dr. Jessica Wicks-Allen (Arizona State University) about Wicks-Allen’s Journal of American History article, “Child Apprenticeship and Black Maternal Authority following the Civil War.” Their conversation features an important discussion of Black women’s engagement with the U.S. child apprenticeship system post-emancipation. Specifically, Wicks-Allen and Appleton delve into how Black women leveraged power and fundamentally shaped the contract process by way of their intimate knowledge of the apprenticeship system.

Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaf094

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