Announcements
Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP History titles with discount code S23XOAH-FM through our virtual exhibit ».
Shelley S. Lee wrote a special entry on our blog about Koreatown, L.A. and landmarks. Given that OAH is in Los Angeles this year, we hope this entry is of special interest.
Start reading KOREATOWN LANDMARKS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT »
New Digital Projects
Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, newspapers in the United States—even newspapers which were not published by a religious denomination or organization—made frequent recourse to the Bible. Newspapers printed sermons and Sunday school lessons. They featured jokes whose punchlines required familiarity with the Bible and aired political commentary that cited the Bible on all sides of a given issue.
America's Public Bible is an interactive scholarly work that uncovers the history of the Bible in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. When the Bible was cited on one side or the other of an issue, only rarely was its meaning explicated rather than assumed. Those who cited the text most typically thought that their readers would understand its meaning precisely as they did. But the multiple and mutually exclusive ways in which newspapers used the Bible test that assumption. By identifying and studying quotations in American newspapers, the site offers a commentary on how the Bible was used in public life, uncovering trends and patterns that would be invisible to a single scholar's reading of these documents.
Recent Award Winners
BEAU BRESLIN
- Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award in Legal Studies and Criminology, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers.
- Gold Medal (tie) in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (U.S.) Category
Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution »
BRETT GARY
- Gold Medal (tie) in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (U.S.) Category.
Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis »
TOSHIHIRO HIGUCHI
- Winner of the 2021 The Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History, sponsored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).
Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control »
MICHAEL KREPON
- Named one of the Best New Diplomacy/Arms Control Books to Read in 2022 by BookAuthority.
- Gold Medal in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (World) Category.
- Winner of the 2022 Douglas Dillon Award, sponsored by the American Academy of Diplomacy.
Between Containment and Rollback: The United States and the Cold War in Germany »
CHRISTIAN F. OSTERMANN
- Winner of the 2022 Richard W. Leopold Prize, sponsored by the Organization of American Historians.
- Winner of the 2022 Harry S. Truman Book Award, sponsored by the Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs.
- Honorable Mention in the 2022 The Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History, sponsored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).
OAH Resources
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