Category: American History

June 23, 2010

Joseph Kip Kosek Wins Best First Book in the History of Religion for Acts of Conscience

We are pleased to announce that the American Academy of Religion named Joseph Kip Kosek’s Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy was named the Best First Book in the History of Religions prize. For more on the...

June 11, 2010

John V. Lindsay and television

In addition to America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York, a museum exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, there have also been a series of symposiums exploring the Lindsay’s mayoralty and its...

April 20, 2010

Sam Roberts on John V. Lindsay

At the New York Times City Room blog, Sam Roberts talks about the forthcoming book America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York and the upcoming exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. Roberts’s...

March 19, 2010

Ronald Reagan and General Electric — Thomas Evans

General Electric is currently sponsoring the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration. Regan’s relationship with GE is the subject of Thomas Evans’s recent book The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism,...

February 8, 2010

Do bailouts work?

In The Great Recession of 2008 and the Sordid Historiography of the Great Depression, an article just published on the History News Network, Robert E. Wright, editor of Bailouts: Public Money, Profit, argues that policymakers’ and scholars’ misinterpretations of the...

December 31, 2009

Food traditions for New Year's

On his blog Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America, looks at the history of some culinary traditions observed among African Americans on New Year’s Day and also provides some recipes! Opie explains...

December 8, 2009

On the anniversary of Pearl Harbor — A post by Greg Robinson

The following post is by Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America. December 7 remains, as Franklin Roosevelt predicted, a date that lives in infamy. It merits this title, though, not just as the...

November 25, 2009

Andrew Smith exposes the truth about Thanksgiving!

In the chapter “Giving Thanks” from his book Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, Andrew Smith reveals that “the whole idea that the Pilgrims were the first to celebrate Thanksgiving in America was, in fact...

November 10, 2009

A new look at the confinement of Japanese-Americans

In a recent feature on Rorotoko, Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement of America, discusses his new book and how it presents the existence of Japanese internment camps in a more expansive light. Robinson’s new research...

October 6, 2009

The Tyrannical History of Military Tribunals for Civilians — A Post by Greg Robinson

The History News Network recently published an essay on U.S. military tribunals during World War II by Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America. In the essay Robinson looks at the implementation military rule...

October 5, 2009

Alexander Joy Cartwright and the invention of baseball

For many fans, the baseball season has come to an end, so for those whose teams did not make the playoffs but still need their baseball fix, the following is an interview with Jay Martin, author of Live All You...

September 29, 2009

The Main Course interviews Andy Smith

In an interview on Heritage Radio Network’s show The Main Course Andy Smith discusses some of the 30 turning points in American food from his book, Eating History. In the interview he touches on topics as varied as the invention...