In this special OAH conference panel debrief episode, we revisit a conversation from the panel, “Material Histories of Politics in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” between panel chair Laura F. Edwards (Princeton University), Moyra Williams Eaton (Pennsylvania State University), Whitney Martinko (Villanova University), and Hope McCaffrey (Pennsylvania State University). Tune in to hear them discuss why material history matters, what material archival sources can reveal, and where the fields of legal and material history are headed.

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Want to learn more about our history blog, Process? Have a short form piece of historical scholarship you want to publish? This special episode features a conversation between Journal of American History assistant editor Amy Ransford, and editorial assistants Jessie Day-Lucore, Hayden Kolowrat, and Kelly Mueller. Listen as they talk through best practices for submitting to Process and how the blog team evaluates submissions.

Check out Process at: https://www.oah.org/process/

Here are the links to the mentioned Process pieces:

Bonnie M. Miller, “Imperial Feasting: Representations of Food and Consumption in the Political Cartoons of the Spanish-American War of 1898” at: https://www.oah.org/process/miller-imperial-feasting-representations-of-food-and-consumption-in-the-political-cartoons-of-the-spanish-american-war-of-1898/

Myra Billund-Phibbs, “Doing Trans History Despite It All” at: https://www.oah.org/process/doing-trans-history-despite-it-all-billund-phibbs/

Nick Timmerman, “Lessons in History: Teaching at a Tribal College in Northern Minnesota” at: https://www.oah.org/process/teaching-at-a-tribal-college-in-northern-minnesota/

Submit to the blog here: https://www.oah.org/process/call-for-submissions/

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Check out The American Historian magazine at: https://www.oah.org/tah/

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This special OAH conference panel debrief episode features a conversation from the panel, “Queer Archives in the Digital Age,” between Lisa Arellano (Mills Institute, Northeastern University), Anne Rubenstein (York University), Pablo Mitchell (Oberlin College), Tom Hooper (York University), Joy Ellison (University of Rhode Island), and Elissa Branum (Rutgers University, New Brunswick). Listen to them reflect on key takeaways from their panel, including the complexity of representing historical queer experiences, the utility of the digital archive “Queer Pasts” as pedagogical material, and the process of working with a digital archive as researchers. Bluesky: @oah.org | Facebook: The Journal of American History #JAHCast

You can find all of the panelists' digital curations at Queer Pasts.

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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