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“Male owner with German police dog,” July 1934, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, 42307.
Are you attending OAH this year?
Come join MAH on Saturday for a panel on "Animals in Modern American History" with Susan Nance, Thomas Andrews, @kclement.bsky.social, Tyler Parry, Andrea Ringer, and Dan Vandersommers.
Links below to this fascinating forum!
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Men with teams working on dam project, NARA, ca. 1935. Wikimedia Commons
In our special issue on A Water's History of the United States, a new Soapbox from guest editors Gaetano Di Tommaso and @dariofazzi.bsky.social makes the case for centering water in histories of the United States, arguing that water was a driving force in American history.
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"Afterlives of an American Waterscape: The Urban Ditch in the Long Twentieth Century" by Michael Holleran
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"Where the Dumps that Used to Be Ponds Used to Be: Urbanization and Waste in Providence, Rhode Island (United States)" by Samia W. Cohen
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"War for the Water: The Environmental Origins of Conflict Between Shrimp Fishers and Vietnamese Refugees on the Texas Coast" by Thomas Blake Earle www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A special issue of Modern American History, A Water's History of the United States, with Roosevelt Institute for American Studies guest editors Gaetano Di Tommaso and @dariofazzi.bsky.social, is now live!
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New publication! Very excited to share that my article, "Are You My Kimchi Mother? Asian Officers, American Women, and Cold War Military Training," has been published open access in Modern American History.
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Japanese national police reserve officers in bayonet drill at Fort Benning. Source: Benning Herald, August 1953. Disclaimer: The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement.
Up now on First View: Winner of of the 2025 Brooke L. Blower & Sarah T. Phillips Essay Prize "Are You My Kimchi Mother? Asian Officers, American Women, and Cold War Military Training" by @syrussolojin.bsky.social explores the role of military study abroad in US Cold War diplomacy
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Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton, Research Library, 20th C. Fox, 1902-1910. Wikimedia Commons
Up now on First View: "Architects of the Administrative State: Public Administration in the Twentieth Century" by Casey Eilbert shows how public administration experts conceptualized the administrative state in different ways over the course of the 20th century.
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The Supreme Court will hear oral argument this morning on birthright citizenship.
Explore the link below to MAH's recent forum on birthright citizenship for historical analysis of the Supreme Court's 1898 ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark affirmed the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees
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The Supreme Court of the United States, May 2019, Wikimedia Commons
In our latest Q&A, MAH editorial board member Sarah A. Seo discusses the role of historians in interpreting history for a legal audience with Laura Edwards, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Samuel Erman, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Maggie Blackhawk, and Ned Blackhawk.
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"The Unhappy Legal History of the War Powers Resolution" by @marydudziak.bsky.social
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"War and the Demos: The War Powers Resolution in the Context of the Draft's Demise" by Shaul Mitelpunk
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"The Making of a Militarized War on Poverty: The Effort to Triangulate Military Service, Crime Prevention, and Social Citizenship through Project 100,000 and Project Transition" is forthcoming by @emiliecunning.bsky.social
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Did you attend the Society for Military History annual meeting this year? Consider submitting your article to MAH!
Explore the links below to read pieces on military history published in MAH.
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"Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara," NARA, February 1968.
Up now on First View: "The Making of a Militarized War on Poverty: The Effort to Triangulate Military Service, Crime Prevention, and Social Citizenship through Project 100,000 and Project Transition" by @emiliecunning.bsky.social
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