The Journal of American History

Reconstructing the American Home: Western Boardinghouses on the Comstock Lode — Nicole Martin

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 [https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaf098] Bluesky: @oah.org | Facebook: The Journal of American History #JAHCast

Latin America and the Cuban Missile Crisis — a Blogcast Episode

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/ [https://www.oah.org/process/keller-latin-america-and-the-cuban-missile-crisis/] Bluesky: @oah.org | Facebook: The Journal of American History For more information on OAH 2026, visit: https://www.oah.org/conferences/oah2026/ [https://www.oah.org/conferences/oah2026/] #JAHCast

Devin Kennedy — Silent Partners: Indirect Investment and Financialization in the United States, 1950–1975

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 [https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaae268] Bluesky: @oah.org | Facebook: The Journal of American History For more information on OAH 2026, visit: https://www.oah.org/conferences/oah2026/ [https://www.oah.org/conferences/oah2026/] #JAHCast

Jessica Wicks-Allen—Child Apprenticeship and Black Maternal Authority following the Civil War

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 X: @thejamhist | Facebook: The Journal of American History For more information on OAH 2026, visit: https://www.oah.org/conferences/oah2026/

Teaching at a Tribal College in Northern Minnesota—a Blogcast Episode

This Blogcast episode features Nick Timmerman’s blog piece “Lessons in History: Teaching at a Tribal College in Northern Minnesota,” first published in Process: A Blog for American History on August 12, 2025. In this episode, Timmerman (a history professor at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College) reflects on his experience teaching at a tribal college and university— and how it has informed his approach to teaching history. Read the blog post here: https://www.oah.org/process/teaching-at-a-tribal-college-in-northern-minnesota/ [https://www.oah.org/process/teaching-at-a-tribal-college-in-northern-minnesota/] Music: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band’s Mabel’s Dream, 1923 X: @thejamhist | Facebook: The Journal of American History #JAHCast For more information on OAH 2026, visit: https://www.oah.org/conferences/oah2026/