Past Volumes

Volume XV

MJH Volume XV

The Winter 2019 edition features the following articles:

  • Reclaiming the City: Urban Renewal and Policing in Detroit 1967-1977 (Kenneth Alyass, Wayne State University)
  • The Sacrifice for Cultural Tolerance: Asian Women and Domestic Violence in Multicultural Britain (Emily Bacon, University of Michigan)
  • Politics, America, and Sex: What Could Go Wrong? The Orange County Right Wing and the Battle Over Progressive Education (Emma Bianco, University of California – Berkeley)
  • “But He Can’t Work in Stockton”: El Malcriado and the United Farm Workers’ Shifting Border Politics (Samantha Chomsky, Brown University)
  • “This Beautiful Promise Land”: Nicodemus and the Future, 1877-1880 (Claire Mcmahon Fishman, Brown University)
  • A Study in Kashmir: Partition to Special Status (Ilina Krishen, University of Michigan)
  • Non-Aligned Feminism: Representing a “Third World” in the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, 1947-1951 (Natalie D. McDonald, Pomona College)
  • “The Great Popular Heart” in Civil War North Carolina (William Bryson Penley, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)
  • The Black Panther Party: Violence, Black Identity, and Legacy (Jessica Selzer, University of Michigan)
  • Two Left Feet: The Balancing Act of Leftist Interests in the Salford Labour Party, 1924-1929 (Andrew Yang, University of California – Berkeley)

Volume XIV

Winter 2018 (Vol. XIV, Issue I)

The Winter 2018 edition features the following articles:

  • Stranger Things: Hunting, Collecting and Displaying Animals in the Powell-Cotton Museum (Miguel Alegre, University College London)
  • Challenging the Binary: Egyptian Nationalism and Non-Alignment in the Bandung Conference of 1955 (Poorvi Bellur, Columbia University)
  • The Missing Rebellion: 1692-1730 Ireland (Kevin Bendesky, Yale University)
  • A “Women’s Interpretation of Zionism:” American Hadassah Women Finding Agency at the Confluence of Maternalism and Colonialism (Matthew Brill-Carlat, Vassar College)
  • Evocation of the Illegitimate: The Crossroad of Language and Nationalism in Algeria (1920s-1990s) (Ha Dong, McGill University)
  • The Empire Bites Back: The Representation of Postcolonial India in Mrs. Balbir Singh’s Indian Cookery (Julia Fine, Harvard University)
  • “Two Great Parties”: Martin Van Buren’s Developing Views on the Two-Party System from 1800-1862 (Claire Fishman, Brown University)
  • The Rise of Bohemia: The Beatnik Influence on Civil Rights and Anti-Conformists in America, 1944 – 1966 (Tre Goodhue, University of Northern Iowa)
  • The Victims and Perpetrators History Has Forgotten: Concentration Camp Brothels Under National Socialism (Haley Hayashi, University of California, Berkeley)
  • Human Rights and the Liberalization of Abortion and Contraception in Western Europe (Hannah Hicklen, The College of William and Mary)
  • Icepicks and Nobel Prizes: the Birth of the Lobotomy (Declan Riley Kunkel, Yale University)
  • The Right Man at the Right Time: Explaining the Rapid Rise of the Konbaung Dynasty (Noah McCarthy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  • Mass Medicine: Nationalism and Nursing in Wartime China (Naveed Nikpour, Vassar College)
  • Violence and Belonging in Jacksonian America (Elena Ryan, University of St. Thomas)
  • Who’s Laughing Now: The Clowns and the Black Baseball Press (Isaac Shapiro, University of Pennsylvania)
  • Wrinkles in a Clash of Civilizations: Complications in the Conception of Russian Empire in the Caucasus (Giacomo Edward Squatriti, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  • Behind the Purdah: The Historiography of the First Ottoman Queen (Shreya Srinath, State University of New York, Geneseo)
  • “A Bloody and Perfidious People”: Irish Catholics, Transnational Alliances, and the Imperial Religious Politics of the Seventeenth-Century English Caribbean (Christian Zavardino, Bowdoin College)

Volume XIII

Winter 2017 (Volume XIII, Issue I)

The Winter 2017 edition features the following articles:

  • Paid by the Rich: Carriages and the Birth of Progressive Federal Taxation, 1794-1816 (Parker Abt, Yale University)
  • Tranquilized, Exoticized, Not to be Homogenized: Canada’s National Identity in the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Advertising Campaigns (Olivia Armandroff, Yale University)
  • The Fight for Water and Life: Popular Participation in Cochabamba’s Water War (Abigail Austin, George Washington University)
  • Titian and the Black Page Portrait: Race and Power in the Venetian Renaissance (Lydia Breska, Brigham Young University)
  • Dressing for Success: The Political Role of Fashion in the WSPU’s Suffrage Campaign (Brigitte Dale, Brown University)
  • India-Pakistani Divergence: The Forming of Two Different Politics (Vamsi Damerla, Swarthmore College)
  • Print, Plants, and Piracy: Botanic Herbals and the Emergence of Intellectual Property (Emelia Lehmann, Brown University)
  • Quattrocento Florence’s Humanistic Ideals Portrayed Through Architecture (Rachel Holcomb, University of North Carolina)
  • Protestant Persuasion: Anne Boleyn’s Influence on the Protestant Reformation (Tarilyn Medlar, Mount St. Vincent University)
  • Ping Pong Diplomacy: Impacts on Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and China (Ellen Miller, University of North Carolina)
  • The Immobilization of the Roman Government in the 5th Century and Its Consequences (Collin Parks, University of Michigan)
  • Perceptions on KKK Violence in the Late Insurrectionary South: United States Congress Joint Select Committee Reports and Testimonies 1871-72 (Rohin Patel, University of Michigan)
  • The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan: A Genocidal Perspective (Chris Riehl, Western Kentucky University)
  • “A Malthusian Reckoning”: The Economic State of Fourteenth-Century Europe (Robert Yee, Vanderbilt University)

Volume XII

Winter 2016 (Volume XII, Issue I)

The Winter 2016 edition features the following articles:

  • Out of Thin Air: Poisonous Gas and the Genesis of the Military Laboratory During World War I (Ari Feldman, University of Chicago)
  • The Revolution That Never Was: How the FBI Ignored the Differences Which Kept the New Left and Black Civil Rights Movements Divided (Carl Helstrom, University of Michigan)
  • Postcolonial Politics: Korean “Comfort Women” and Japanese Reparations (Chloe Nurik, University of Pennsylvania)
  • Forced Sterilization and the Racial Politics of “Choice” (Claire Shennan, Brown University)
  • 21st Century Maoists: Leftist Militancy and the Politics of Anachronism in Postcolonial South Asia (Connor Liskey, University of Michigan)
  • Playing with a Purpose on the Home Front Stage: A Study of the Social Functions of Theatrical Performance in London during the First World War (Holly Dayton, Stanford University)
  • International Image and the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil (Jasmine Kirby, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • From Lord Lugard to Mohammad Yusuf: The Development of Nigerian Views toward Western Biomedicine, 1900-2015 (Laura Leddy, University of Virginia)
  • Kashmiriyat: The Disputed Identity of a Disputed Territory (Muskan Mumtaz, University of Virginia)
  • A Tale of Two Cemeteries: The Paris Commune, the Haymarket Affair, and the Politics of Memorialization (Paige Pendarvis, University of Chicago)
  • Civil Rights in New Rochelle: A Case Study (Tamar Rothstein, University of Pennsylvania)

VOLUME XI

Winter 2015 (Volume XI, Issue II)

The Winter 2015 edition features the following articles:

  • The Need for Radical Reconstruction: Meridan, Mississippi (Bogdan Belei, University of Michigan)
  • Rhyolite, Nevada: The Rhetoric of a Ghost Town (Lydia Cornett, Princeton University)
  • Waving Red Books: Murray’s Handbook and the British Traveler (Jaime Ding, Princeton University)
  • From Bells to Blindfolds: Differing Conceptualizations of Justice from Mughal, India, to British Colonial Rule  (Emma Fallone, Yale University)
  • Entranced by Exotics: An Exploration of Commonalities in Commercialization, of and Fascination with, Exotic Animals in the Early Modern Period and the Modern World (Emily Frantz, Stanford University)
  • The Pergamon Altar in Wilhelmine Context: The Cultural and Imperial Ambition of the NewGerman Empire (Christopher Hunt, University of Michigan)
  • Gangs Running Politics: The Role of Irish Social Athletic Clubs in Politics, and Radical Violence in Chicago from 1900-1920 (Ethan James Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
  • For Duty and Glory: Mazzini’s Justification for Italian Colonial Expansion (Catalina Mackaman-Lofland, Barnard College)
  • Snatching Bodies, Making Doctors: Stealing Black Corpses for Medical Education in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American South (Scott Nelson, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)
  • Paris and the History of French Cuisine (Reyna Schaechter, Yale University)
  • The Wrong Man (Elizabeth Villarreal, Yale University)
  • The Roads They Had Taken: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Soviet Union During World War II (Brody Weinrich, Rice University)

Fall 2014 (Volume XI, Issue I)

The Fall 2014 edition features the following articles:

  • Compromised Defense – The Conquests of Basil II (Michael Goodyear, University of Chicago)
  • Buffalo Extermination: 1865-1883 (Heather Kirkpatrick, University of Michigan)
  • Bourgeois Espionage: The Bureau of Secret Intelligence During World War I and the State Department’s Battle with Modernity (Sam Kleinman, Georgetown University)
  • “I Do What I Can for Organization:” Lincoln the Campaigner in 1860 (William Redmond, Georgetown University)
  • The Roaring Nineties: Privatization and the Mongolian Stock Exchange (Nicolas Sambor, Columbia University)
  • A Shift in Philosophy: The American Jewish Congress and the Fight to End Discrimination in Stuyvesant Town, New York (Gregory Segal, University of Pennsylvania)
  • Misreading Shadows: Elusive Victory, Enigmatic Defeat: The USSR, The US, Egypt, and Israel During the “War of Attrition,” 1969-1970 (Matthew Schweitzer, University of Chicago)
  • The Demise of Chene Street: Urban Crisis in Detroit’s Lower East Side (Christopher White, University of Michigan)
  • “Stand Down Margaret, Please Stand Down:” Musical and Political Opposition to the Conservative Government (1979-1990) (Cecily Zander, University of Virginia)
  • Insights into the Early 20th Century Debate Vivisection Via The Case of Udo J. Wile(Jacob Ziff, University of Michigan)

VOLUME X

Winter 2014 (Volume X, Issue II)

An online copy of the Journal may be accessed at this link: Michigan Journal of History Winter 2014 Edition

The Winter 2014 edition features the following articles:

  • Road Blocks to Suffrage (Daisy Dowdall, Wellesley College)
  • Legend and Legacy: A Rhetorical History of Lewis and Clark (Jake Sonnenberg, Stanford University)
  • Labor Politics and Historical Memory of 1989 (Jack Fuller, University of Michigan)
  • Leading from the  Front: An Analysis of What Made a Successful Civil War Unit (Ian Gorham, University of Michigan)
  • The Warsaw Ghetto and the Shanghai Ghetto (So Yeon Jeong, Wellesley College)
  • The Men of Creedmoor Rifle Range (Lindsay Sovern, Brown University)
  • How American Energy Dependence Sparked al-Qaeda’s War on the United States(Ben Gottesdiener and David Sutter, Washington University in St. Louis)
  • The Evolution of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in American Cinema and Culture(Patrick Van Hackeling, Swarthmore College)
  • Journey of Mad Scientists (Marcus Nappier, University of Virginia)
  • The Inescapable Politics of Identity (Sarah Pauling, University of Michigan)
  • The Mass Lynching of Italians in 1891 New Orelans: Marking Italians as Racially “Dago” (Nicholas Borkowski, Swarthmore College)

Fall 2013 (Volume X, Issue I)

An online copy of the Journal may be accessed at this link: Michigan Journal of History Fall 2013 Edition

The Fall 2013 edition features the following articles:

  • “This Time for Africa”: FIFA, Politics, and South Africa’s Struggle for Human Rights(Taylor Henley, Duke University)
  • Policy of Fear: FBI COINTELPRO Operations Conducted Against Black Nationalist Groups (Zachary Determan, University of Michigan)
  • The Cinema of Moral Anxiety (Mario Goetz, University of Michigan)
  • Challenging Jim Crow: Desegregation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Hannah McMillan, University of North Carolina)
  • The Turning of Chinese Patriotic Education (Jiaqi Fan, Wellesley College)
  • Provincial Influences on Loyalist Writings (Kasey Sease, University of Virginia)
  • Parrish S. Lovejoy Collection–Michigan’s Conservation Moment: Post-Progressive Era(Jennifer Ross Durow, University of Michigan)
  • Wheatland of Wrath: A Tale of 20th Century Agricultural Labor and Historical Memory(Sarah Sadlier, Stanford University)
  • Mass Pilgrimage and the Christological Context of the First Crusade (Burt Westermeier, University of North Carolina)

VOLUME IX

 

VOLUME VIII

VOLUME VIII, ISSUE 1 – FALL 2011

This edition features the following articles:

VOLUME VII

VOLUME VII, ISSUE 2 – WINTER 2010

The Winter 2010 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME VII, ISSUE 1 – FALL 2009

The Fall 2009 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME VI

VOLUME VI, ISSUE 2 – WINTER 2009

The Winter 2009 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME VI, ISSUE 1 – FALL 2008

The Fall 2008 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME V

VOLUME V, ISSUE 2 – WINTER 2008

The Winter 2008 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME V, ISSUE 1 – FALL 2007

The Fall 2007 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME IV

VOLUME IV, ISSUE 2 – WINTER 2007

The Winter 2007 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME IV, ISSUE 1 – FALL 2006

The Fall 2006 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME III

VOLUME III, ISSUE 2 – WINTER 2006

The Winter 2006 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME III, ISSUE 1 – FALL 2005

The Fall 2005 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME II

VOLUME II, ISSUE 2 – WINTER 2005

The Winter 2004 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME II, ISSUE 1 – FALL 2004

The Fall 2004 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME I

VOLUME I, ISSUE 4 – WINTER 2004

VOLUME I, ISSUE 3 – FALL 2003

The Fall 2003 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME I, ISSUE 2 – WINTER 2002

The Winter 2002 edition features the following articles:

VOLUME I, ISSUE 1 – FALL 2001

The Fall 2001 edition features the following articles: