Jeffrey Boutwell is a retired independent historian with a B.A. in History from Yale and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This interview is based on his new book, Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of […]
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The Author’s Corner with Tom Smith
Tom Smith is Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. This interview is based on his new book, Word across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories (Cornell University Press, 2024). […]
The Author’s Corner with Matthew Bernstein
Matthew Bernstein is Editor of the Wild West History Association Journal and teaches English at Harris Newmark High School and Los Angeles City College. This interview is based on his new book, Team of Giants: The Making of the Spanish-American War (University […]
The Author’s Corner with Mary Bridges
Mary Bridges is an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. This interview is based on her new book, Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a […]
The Author’s Corner with Frances Kolb Turnbell
Frances Kolb Turnbell is Instructor of History at the University of North Alabama and editor of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly. This interview is based on her new book, Spanish Louisiana: Contest for Borderlands, 1763–1803 (LSU Press, 2024). JF: What led you […]
The Author’s Corner with James Tejani
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 Diego Javier Luis
Diego Javier Luis is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University. This interview is based on his new book, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History (Harvard University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write The First […]
The Author’s Corner with Michael J. Megelsh
Michael J. Megelsh is Assistant Professor of History at Blue Mountain Christian University. This interview is based on his new book, Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America (The Kent State University Press, 2024). JF: What […]
The Author’s Corner with William Riddell
William Riddell is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. This interview is based on his new book, On the Waves of Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924 (University of Illinois Press, 2023). JF: What led […]
The Author’s Corner with Warren C. Riess
Warren C. Riess is Associate Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Maine. This interview is based on his new book, Studying the Princess Carolina: Anatomy of the Ship That Held Up Wall Street (Texas A&M University Press, 2023). JF: […]
The Author’s Corner with Tamson Pietsch
Tamson Pietsch is Associate Professor in Social and Political Sciences and Director of the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. This interview is based on her new book, The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the […]
The Author’s Corner with Kevin Kenny
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 Amy Kohout
Amy Kohout is Associate Professor of History at Colorado College. This interview is based on her new book, Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Taking the […]
The Author’s Corner with Christen T. Sasaki
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 Jane Hooper
Jane Hooper is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate History Programs at George Mason University. This interview is based on her new book, Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 (Ohio University Press, 2022). JF: […]
The Author’s Corner with Michael Verney
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
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 Edward Pompeian
Edward Pompeian is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tampa. This interview is based on his new book, Sustaining Empire: Venezuela’s Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). JF: […]