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The Journal of African American History, volume 107 number 1 (Winter 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 107 issue 1 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 107 number 2 (Spring 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 107 issue 2 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 107 number 3 (Summer 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 107 issue 3 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 107 number 4 (Fall 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 107 issue 4 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 108 number 1 (Winter 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 108 issue 1 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 108 number 2 (Spring 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 108 issue 2 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 108 number 3 (Summer 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 108 issue 3 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 108 number 4 (Fall 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 108 issue 4 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 109 number 1 (Winter 2024)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2024
This is volume 109 issue 1 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 109 number 2 (Spring 2024)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2024
This is volume 109 issue 2 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 109 number 3 (Summer 2024)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2024
This is volume 109 issue 3 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 109 number 4 (Fall 2024)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2024
This is volume 109 issue 4 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 110 number 1 (Winter 2025)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2025
This is volume 110 issue 1 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 110 number 2 (Spring 2025)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2025
This is volume 110 issue 2 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 110 number 3 (Summer 2025)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2025
This is volume 110 issue 3 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 110 number 4 (Fall 2025)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2025
This is volume 110 issue 4 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 111 number 1 (Winter 2026)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2026
This is volume 111 issue 1 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 111 number 2 (Spring 2026)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2026
This is volume 111 issue 2 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of African American History, volume 111 number 3 (Summer 2026)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2026
This is volume 111 issue 3 of The Journal of African American History. JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience. The JAAH embraces ASALH's mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating "information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community."
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 92 number 1 (March 2020)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2020
This is volume 92 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 92 number 2 (June 2020)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2020
This is volume 92 issue 2 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 92 number 3 (September 2020)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2020
This is volume 92 issue 3 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 92 number 4 (December 2020)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2020
This is volume 92 issue 4 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 93 number 1 (March 2021)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2021
This is volume 93 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 93 number 2 (June 2021)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2021
This is volume 93 issue 2 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 93 number 3 (September 2021)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2021
This is volume 93 issue 3 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 93 number 4 (December 2021)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2021
This is volume 93 issue 4 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 94 number 1 (March 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 94 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 94 number 2 (June 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 94 issue 2 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 94 number 3 (September 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 94 issue 3 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 94 number 4 (December 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 94 issue 4 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 95 number 1 (March 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 95 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 95 number 2 (June 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 95 issue 2 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 95 number 3 (September 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 95 issue 3 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 95 number 4 (December 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 95 issue 4 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 96 number 1 (March 2024)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2024
This is volume 96 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 96 number 2 (June 2024)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2024
This is volume 96 issue 2 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 96 number 3 (September 2024)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2024
This is volume 96 issue 3 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 96 number 4 (December 2024)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2024
This is volume 96 issue 4 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 97 number 1 (March 2025)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2025
This is volume 97 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 97 number 2 (June 2025)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2025
This is volume 97 issue 2 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 97 number 3 (September 2025)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2025
This is volume 97 issue 3 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 97 number 4 (December 2025)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2025
This is volume 97 issue 4 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 98 number 1 (March 2026)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2026
This is volume 98 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 98 number 2 (June 2026)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2026
This is volume 98 issue 2 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 98 number 3 (September 2026)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2026
This is volume 98 issue 3 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Otto Peltonen
A Finnish Immigrant StoryWilliam Durbin
University of Minnesota Press, 2020
A portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century—now in paperback
After journeying across the Atlantic with his mother and two sisters, young Otto Peltonen joins his father in the iron ore mines of northern Minnesota, experiencing the harsh labor conditions that were common at the time, as mining companies cared more about making a profit than for their workers’ safety. Writing in his journal about his family’s struggles and the hard life Finnish immigrants endured in the early twentieth century, Otto ultimately strengthens his resolve to find the freedom his family had first sought in America.
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The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835
A Substitute for Social IntercourseEdited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins with Ruth Smith Truss
University of Alabama Press, 2013
The remarkable journal of the young wife of early Alabama governor John Gayle and a primary source of our knowledge about early Alabama and the antebellum American South
Astonishing, tragic, and remarkable, the journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, wife of early Alabama governor John Gayle, is among the most widely studied and seminal accounts of antebellum life in the American South. This is the first complete edition of the journal in print.
Bereft of the companionship of her often-absent husband, Sarah considered her journal “a substitute for social intercourse” during the period from 1827 to 1835. It became the social and intellectual companion to which she confided stories that reflected her personal life and the world of early Alabama. Sarah speaks directly to us of her loneliness, the challenges of child rearing, her fear of and frustration with the management of slaves, and the difficulty of balancing the responsibilities of a socially prominent woman with her family’s slender finances.
The poor condition of the journal and its transcripts, sometimes disintegrated or reassembled in the wrong order, has led historians to misinterpret Gayle’s words. Gayle’s descendants, Alabama’s famed Gorgases, deliberately obscured or defaced many passages. Using archival techniques to recover the text and restore the correct order, Sarah Wiggins and Ruth Truss reveal the unknown story of Sarah’s economic hardships, the question of her husband’s “temperance,” and her opium use.
The only reliable and unexpurgated edition of Sarah Gayle’s journal, now enhanced with a fascinating introduction and inset notes, The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835, is a robust and gripping account and will be of inestimable value to our understanding of antebellum society, religion, intellectual culture, and slavery.
Published in cooperation with the University Libraries, The University of Alabama, with further financial support from the Library Leadership Board, the University Libraries, The University of Alabama.
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The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles W. Chesnutt
Duke University Press, 1993
Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his modest beginnings and forlorn surroundings, Chesnutt kept a detailed record of his thoughts, observations, and activities from his sixteenth through his twenty-fourth year (1874-1882). These journals, printed here for the first time, are remarkable for their intimate account of a gifted young black man's dawning sense of himself as a writer in the nineteenth century.
Though he achieved literary success in his time, Chesnutt has only recently been rediscovered and his contribution to American literature given its due. The only known private diary from a nineteenth-century African American author, these pages offer a fascinating glimpse into Chesnutt's everyday experience as he struggled to win the goods of education in the world of the post-Civil War South. An extraordinary portrait of the self-made man beset by the urgencies and difficulties of self-improvement in a racially discriminatory society, Chesnutt's journals unfold a richly detailed local history of postwar North Carolina. They also show with great force how the world of the postwar South obstructed--and, unexpectedly, assisted--a black man of driving intellectual ambitions.
Though he achieved literary success in his time, Chesnutt has only recently been rediscovered and his contribution to American literature given its due. The only known private diary from a nineteenth-century African American author, these pages offer a fascinating glimpse into Chesnutt's everyday experience as he struggled to win the goods of education in the world of the post-Civil War South. An extraordinary portrait of the self-made man beset by the urgencies and difficulties of self-improvement in a racially discriminatory society, Chesnutt's journals unfold a richly detailed local history of postwar North Carolina. They also show with great force how the world of the postwar South obstructed--and, unexpectedly, assisted--a black man of driving intellectual ambitions.
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The Journals of Jeffery Amherst, 1757-1763, Volume 1
The Daily and Personal JournalsRobert J. Andrews
Michigan State University Press, 2014
General Jeffery Amherst served as commander in chief of the British army in North America during the Seven Years’ War from 1758 until 1763. Under Amherst’s leadership the British defeated French forces enabling the British Crown to claim Canada. Like many military officers, Amherst kept a journal of his daily activities, and the scope of this publication is from March 1757, while he was Commissary to the troops of Hesse-Kassel on British service in Germany, until his return to Great Britain in December 1763. The daily journal contains a record of and a commentary on events that Amherst witnessed or that he learned of through his correspondence. Where he mentions letters or orders received or sent, where possible, the present-day source locations of documents are identified. The Daily and Personal Journals are the record of the man who played a decisive role in British victories at Louisbourg, on Lake Champlain, and at Montreal. Amherst wrote the personal journal after he returned home. It does not have entries made on a daily basis. It is replete with lists, diagrams, and compendia to more fully explain events. Colored diagrams show dispositions or “Orders of Battle,” organizational structures, and evidence of uniform colors of units for campaigns at Louisbourg, Quebec, Niagara, Lake Champlain, the Carolinas, Montreal, and the Caribbean. In addition, Amherst made mileage charts and lists of ships, currency values, and officers who died during the war.
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