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By Thomas D. Beamish, author of After Tragedy Strikes: Why Claims of Trauma and Loss Promote Public Outrage and Encourage Political Polarization
Tragedy seldom unifies Americans today.
Every year, horrific crises induce trem...
We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Diane M.T. North’s article, “California and the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic,” published in California History (Vol. 97, No. 3, August [Fall] 2020), has won the Western Association of Women Historians’ (WAWH) Judith Lee Ridge prize for the best histo...
Editors-in-Chief: Tony E. Adams and Adrew F. Herrmann
Since the pandemic began in March of 2020, we (Tony and I) have wavered about doing a COVID-19 special issue for JoAE. It’s not that we don’t think it is important. It is. It’s not that we didn’t receive submissions. We did. It boil...
By William J. Bauer Jr., co-author of We Are the Land: A History of Native California
This guest post is part of our #OAH2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more and get 40% off the book.
In late April 2020, my co-author, Damon Akins, and I submitted the f...
By Martin Halliwell, author of American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics
This guest post is part of our #OAH2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more and get 40% off the book.
When I began working on my new book American Health ...
This World Health Day, The World Health Organization is calling for action to eliminate health inequities, as part of a year-long global campaign to build a fairer, healthier world.
COVID-19 has brought to the fore long-standing systemic health and social inequities and pushed many mo...
We’ve removed the paywall from Asian Survey‘s annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China dominated the headlines. As the world continues ...
By Ellen Lamont, author of The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date
As Covid-19 ripped through the United States in early 2020, governors across the country began issuing social distancing mandates and shuttering restaurants. While these guidelines were intended to keep...
By Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, author of Constantinople: Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial Capital
Ritualized occasions—holy days and holidays, funerals and weddings, graduations and retirements, conferences, protests, and elections—are crucial for co...
By Catherine S. Ramírez, author of Assimilation: An Alternative History
This post was originally published on University of Southern California Equity Research Institute blog and is reposted here with permission.
During their first presidential debate, Democratic nominee Hil...