The JHPE is accepting papers for publication consideration (peer review). For submission information, see nowpublishers.com/Journal/Author….

ALERT: The Second Annual Historical Political Economy Conference at USC will be held on October 24-25, 2025. Deadline for proposals: **May 1** Keynote presentation: Saumitra Jha Here's the link to the proposal form: dornsife.usc.edu/cis/2025/04/02…

The 2025 Lee J. Alston Prize for the best article in the previous year's JHPE volume (4) goes to: Peng Peng (Wash U), for her article, "Meritocracy Reimagined: Ideational Foundations of State-Building in Imperial China."

Now out, JHPE 5(1): special issue on the Historical Political Economy of Race. Papers by Ellora Derenoncourt, Randall Walsh, @aspaglayan on bsky, Dr. Trevon D Logan, Nico Napolio, Thomas Gray & Jeff Jenkins. nowpublishers.com/HPE

New in JHPE: Ellora Derenoncourt tests the hypothesis that slavery contributed to modern economic growth in Europe using data on European participation in the Atlantic slave trade. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in JHPE: Thomas Gray & Jeff Jenkins examine the multiple attempts by the Maryland Democratic Party to disenfranchise African Americans between 1901 and 1911. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in JHPE: Dr. Trevon D Logan reframes the establishment of public education in the South by Black politicians after the Civil War as a successful attempt to create new citizen–subjects in the United States. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in JHPE: @aspaglayan on bsky explores how political elites react when historically marginalized groups mobilize and demand institutional reforms by analyzing state-level curriculum reform in the U.S. South following the Civil Rights Movement. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in JHPE: Randall Walsh & coauthors revisit the historical processes that disenfranchised African Americans in the post-Reconstruction US south. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in JHPE: Jeff Jenkins & Nico Napolio trace the history of legislation to arm the enslaved in the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

Following the Civil Rights Movement, while non-Southern textbooks evolved to better reflect Black activists’ curriculum demands, Alabama textbooks largely retained narratives that minimized or erased the history of racial discrimination. Ungated study: tinyurl.com/y32wev8y

As academic budgets recede and merit raises disappear, the PIPE Collaborative rolls on! Speakers and events for Fall 2025 below:

Coming soon: JHPE 5(2). Articles by @Dan_S_smith and Thomas Gray, Janne Tukiainen & coauthors, Mirya Holman & coauthors, Jonathan Doucette, Jorgen Moller.