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Dec 12, 2018

Over the past few issues, the AHR has begun broadening what it selects for review beyond the confines of the scholarly monograph. In the April 2018 issue, the journal featured a set of film reviews, in June documentary history, in October museums and public history sites—and in the December issue the graphic history,...


Nov 29, 2018

In this episode we speak with historian Regina Kunzel, whose review essay titled “The Power of Queer History” appears in the December 2018 issue of the AHR. Kunzel is the Doris Stevens Chair and Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of the book Criminal...


Oct 25, 2018

In this episode we look back at one of our most read articles from the past few years—Lara Putnam’s “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast,” which appears in the April 2016 issue of the AHR. In it, Putnam explores some of the unintended, as well as largely...


Sep 17, 2018

In this episode of AHR Interview, David Minto discusses his article “Perversion by Penumbras: Wolfenden, Griswold, and the Transatlantic Trajectory of Sexual Privacy,” which appears in the journal’s October 2018 issue. The article examines the role of the 1957 British Wolfenden Report on homosexual offenses...


Aug 17, 2018

The runaway success of the Broadway musical Hamilton has thrilled and challenged American audiences with a racially diverse reimagining of the nation’s founding. The highly acclaimed show has had children and adults alike talking about, and singing about, historical figures such as Alexander Hamilton and documents...