Ryan Sullivan's, Fordham University "Archiving the City: Power, Imagination, and the Commissioners' Plan of 1811" details an archival journey to find the voices of those opposed to the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. Visit: commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol19/iss1…

Matthew Champagne's, NC State University "When the Queer East Met the American West: How the Same-Sex Relationship Between a Syrian 'Princess' and Her 'Secretary' Destabilized Orientalism in the Early Twentieth Century" tells the history of Rahme Haidar. Visit: commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol19/iss1…

Daryl Colyer's, Sam Houston State "Carolingian War and Violence and the Course of Medieval History" tells the history of the Frankish noble dynasty in the eighth and ninth centuries. Visit: commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol19/iss1…

Volume 19 of the Madison Historical Review is now available for download (for free!) at commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol19/iss1…. Thank you to all of our authors for their submissions! #twitterstorians

Scholarship alert!

Help us collect & celebrate memories of Carrier Library before it’s renovated and expanded. Share your memory here: kudoboard.com/boards/TrtB4cib or learn more at lib.jmu.edu/your-carrier-l…. #JMUHomecoming

The History, M.A. program application opens today (12/1)! Go ahead, submit early! fal.cn/3u5d3

The MHR is still accepting submissions for our Spring 2023 journal until Dec 25, 2022. For submission guidelines and to upload your submission visit commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/ Questions? Email the current editor at [email protected] #twitterstorians

We are loving the photos & stories on our online memory board! Thanks for helping us to mark this moment in JMU’s history! You still have time to share your memories of Carrier Library & help us honor its history, even as we look to the future: kudoboard.com/boards/TrtB4cib

Congrats to Bailey Hoy, University of British Columbia, for winning the 2023 James Madison Award for Excellence in Historical Scholarship! Check out her article on beauty pageants held at incarceration centers on the MHR website: commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol20/iss1…

Volume 20 of the MHR is now available open access via commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol20/iss1…. Thanks so much to all of this year's authors!

Haley North, Carleton University, examines how the US gov surveilled Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in her article "Intelligence Operations Conducted on Martin Luther King Jr. And His Loose Morals: The Changing Motives for His Surveillance." Available at: commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol20/iss1…

Emma Bianco's (University of California) article "Demons in the City of Angeles: Gay Neo-Nazis in Southern California" tells the history of a neo-Nazi group of gay men in SoCal. Available at: commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol20/iss1…

Christopher Newman, Howard University, analyzes how white enslavers demonized Haitian Vodou in his article "Savages and Sable Subjects: White Fear, Racism, and the Demonization of Creole Voodoo in New Orleans in the 19th Century." Available at: commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol20/iss1…

Mihow McKenny (University of Notre Dame) gives a new interpretation on the history of the abolition of widow burning in his article "Out of sheer love? The Abolition of Widow-Burning in British India." Check out the article at: commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol20/iss1…

Melanie Holmes, Howard University, shares the history of how Black activists drew on the memory of slavery in her article "Black Power & the Slave Trade: How the Memory of Slavery Disrupted White Supremacy, 1959-1989." The article is available at: commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol20/iss1…

Rui Li (University of Guelph) analyzes the shortcomings of the abolition of prostitution movement in Guangzhou in his article "The Guangzhou Abolition of Prostitution Movement and Thought in the Republic of China from the 1920s to 1930s." Available at: commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol20/iss1…

Volume 22 of the MHR is available open access via commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/ Thank you so much to all of this year's authors and editorial board! Keep an eye out for the 2026 Call for Submissions, coming soon!

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