Category: Organization of American Historians

April 4, 2020

Q&A: Martin V. Melosi on Fresh Kills

“Fresh Kills is excellent in many ways–clarity of prose, strength of narration, depth of research, and command of the literature. Melosi is one of the finest urban historians working today, and he is, although this will sound like an unintended...

April 3, 2020

OAH 2020 Happy Hour Reads: New in U.S. History

Hello, and welcome back to the Columbia University Press Virtual OAH Book Exhibit! Now that the coronavirus pandemic has locked down most nonessential businesses in the country, many of us are finding ourselves stuck at home with lots of time...

April 3, 2020

Hospice of the Creative Class

By Alex Sayf Cummings

“From tobacco and plow to computer and creative economy, this rich and eloquent history shows how a group of civic leaders put rural North Carolina at the forefront of the postindustrial revolution. In California, they say Silicon Valley is one...

April 2, 2020

Q&A: Paige Glotzer on How the Suburbs Were Segregated

“Paige Glotzer’s absorbing, vividly narrated study is a major contribution to the histories of capitalism and of American cities. She shows residential segregation’s roots in longer histories of race and empire, flows of global capital, and the actions of powerful...

April 2, 2020

Shennette Garrett-Scott wins the Darlene Clark Hine Award for Banking on Freedom

We are so pleased to announce that Shennette Garrett-Scott has won the Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization for American Historians (OAH) for her book Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal. The Darlene...

April 2, 2020

Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our OAH 2020 Virtual Booth

Hello there, I’m Stephen Wesley, the American history editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the spring conferences—the Organization of American Historians annual program included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits on our blog. I...

April 2, 2020

Welcome to Our OAH 2020 Virtual Exhibit!

Hello, and welcome to our Organization for American Historians (OAH) 2020 virtual exhibit booth. As coronavirus has canceled the spring academic conferences (and most everything else, for that matter), we are moving our conference booth online. Over the next four...