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The Author’s Corner with Yii-Jan Lin 

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 10, 2025

Yii-Jan Lin is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School. This interview is based on her new book, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration (Yale University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Immigration and […]

The Author’s Corner with Kyle B. Carpenter

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 23, 2024

Kyle B. Carpenter is Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain. This interview is based on his new book, Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749-1881 (University of North Texas […]

The Author’s Corner with James Tejani

Rachel Petroziello   |  August 27, 2024

James Tejani is Associate Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University. This interview is based on his new book, A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America (W. W. Norton […]

The Author’s Corner with John William Nelson

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 29, 2024

John William Nelson is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University. This interview is based on his new book, Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). JF: What […]

The Author’s Corner with James Jewell

Rachel Petroziello   |  August 7, 2023

James Jewell is Professor of History and Co-Chair of the Social and Behavioral Science Division at North Idaho College. This interview is based on his new book, Agents of Empire: The First Oregon Cavalry and the Opening of the Interior […]

The Author’s Corner with Kevin Kenny

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 26, 2023

Kevin Kenny is Professor of History and Glucksman Professor in Irish Studies at New York University. This interview is based on his new book, The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Oxford […]

The Author’s Corner with Sharon Ann Murphy

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 12, 2023

Sharon Ann Murphy is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History and Classics at Providence College. This interview is based on her new book, Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States (University of Chicago […]

The Author’s Corner with Joseph Giacomelli

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 10, 2023

Joseph Giacomelli is Assistant Professor of Environmental History at Duke Kunshan University. This interview is based on his new book, Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America (University of Chicago Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write […]

The Author’s Corner with Elliott West

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 28, 2023

Elliott West is History Consultant at the University of Arkansas. This interview is based on his new book, Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Continental […]

The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth Ellis

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 30, 2022

Elizabeth Ellis is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. This interview is based on her new book, The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). JF: What led you to […]

The Author’s Corner with Christen T. Sasaki

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 22, 2022

Christen T. Sasaki is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. This interview is based on her new book, Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i (University of California Press, 2022). JF: What […]

The Author’s Corner with Michael Verney

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 1, 2022

Michael Verney is Assistant Professor of History at Drury University. This interview is based on his new book, A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2022). JF: What […]

The Author’s Corner with Daniel Burge

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 13, 2022

Daniel Burge is Associate Editor of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and Coordinator of the KHS Research Fellowship Program at the Kentucky Historical Society. This interview is based on his new book, A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse […]

The Author’s Corner with Mahshid Mayar

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 30, 2022

Mahshid Mayar is Assistant Professor of North American Literature and Culture at Bielefeld University. This interview is based on her new book, Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire (University of North […]