August 2014

About This Issue

The August 2014 issue is the debut issue of The American Historian. It includes feature stories on the role of dramatic portrayals of American history; columns on contingent historians, the art of writing history, and how historians can take advantage of social media; and a state of the field essay on military history.

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Queer History Article

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Evangelicalism and Politics

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The Inadequacy of American Press Freedom

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Table of Contents

The New Social History: Finding the Time for Social Media and Blogging

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The Vexing Challenges of Contingent Historians

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Writing History with Emotion

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Beyond “A Company, B Company” History: A Military History State of the Field

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The Act of History: A Conversation with Ian Ruskin and Gary B. Nash

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Finding History in the Theater

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[Re]Living Slavery: Ask a Slave and the Pitfalls of Portraying Slavery for the Public

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A Conversation with Azie Dungey

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Getting Acquainted

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Davids vs. Goliaths: A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet. First Run Features, 2012.

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Robert C. Post. Who Owns America’s Past? The Smithsonian and the Problem of History. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

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Mark Kurlansky, Ready for a Brand New Beat: How “Dancing in the Street” Became the Anthem for a Changing America (New York: Riverhead Books, 2013)

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The Challenges and Rewards of Digital Public History in the Classroom

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March: Book One. By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. Top Shelf Productions, 2013.

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What Remains after the Fire–Let the Fire Burn. Zeitgeist Films, 2013.

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Review of Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story. By Peter Bagge. Drawn & Quarterly Publications, 2013.

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Against Foreign Language Requirements

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