Thomas Blake Earle is Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University at Galveston. This interview is based on his new book, The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell University Press, 2023). JF:...
Borders are not handed “down by God.” They have a history. Here is a short piece on “The Grey Zone”: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAlb0MWweno&w=560&h=315] ...
I am very jealous (seriously, I am) of Richard Bailey, Associate Professor of History at Canisius College, a Catholic liberal arts college in Buffalo. Â As I toil away teaching traditional courses like “Pennsylvania History,” “United States History to 1865,” and...
From AHA TODAY: “The Bancroft Prize is awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University to the authors of books of exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography, and diplomacy. There were 223 books nominated for the 2013...
