World War I Vets as the Vanguard of the ‘New Negro’
World War I saw several hundred thousand African-American soldiers discharged from a virulently segregated U.S. military into a virulently segregated society
Class, Feminism and the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers
A paper for Pennsylvania History looked at the way elite & working-class feminists worked together to create the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers.
Debtors’ Prisons, Class, and Patriotism in 18th Century Ireland
In a paper for Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Martyn J. Powell discusses the politics that seem to have limited the use of debtors' prisons in Ireland.
Enslaved People in Texas and the Mexican Border
How the nearness of the Mexican border influenced formerly enslaved people in the state of Texas.
Ota Benga and the Living Ethnographic Exhibit
In the book Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga, Pamela Newkirk tells a tale that is more than astonishing.
What Soldiers Ate During World War I
By World War I, writes Murlin, emerging nutritional science was becoming a priority in the Army.
Population Studies for the Genealogist
Estimating the accuracy and depth of the records is just one insight genealogist's gain from population studies.
Central European History
Central European History is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association.