JHPE

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

Coming soon: @JHPE_journal 5(2). Articles by @Dan_S_smith and @t_r_gray, @JanneTukiainen & coauthors, Mirya Holman & coauthors, Jonathan Doucette, Jorgen Moller.

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

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."

New in @JHPE_journal: @jaj7d & @NicholasNapolio 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

New in @JHPE_journal: @t_r_gray & @jaj7d examine the multiple attempts by the Maryland Democratic Party to disenfranchise African Americans between 1901 and 1911. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in @JHPE_journal: @TrevonDLogan 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_journal: @econtrout & coauthors revisit the historical processes that disenfranchised African Americans in the post-Reconstruction US south. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in @JHPE_journal: @EDerenoncourt 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_journal: @aspaglayan 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…

Now out, @JHPE_journal 5(1): special issue on the Historical Political Economy of Race. Papers by @EDerenoncourt, @econtrout, @aspaglayan, @TrevonDLogan, @NicholasNapolio, @t_r_gray & @jaj7d. nowpublishers.com/HPE

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: @saumjha Here's the link to the proposal form: dornsife.usc.edu/cis/2025/04/02…