Kathy Roberts Forde (University of Massachusetts Amherst) has collaborated on “Truth, Dissent & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg,” a free, online 50th anniversary conference commemorating the release of the Pentagon Papers, April 30-May, 2021. The website also features information about the Ellsberg Archive Project and a five-part podcast series, The Whistleblower.
Marilyn Greenwald (Ohio University) had an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal. “Dr. Seuss, Meet the Sanitized Sleuths Known as the Hardy Boys” deals with literary “cancel culture” and the updating and changing of series juvenile fiction in 1959 and 1960, including the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Tom Swift books.
Three History Division members have been elected to 2021 AEJMC leadership positions. Katherine Foss (Middle Tennessee State University) and Kimberly Voss (University of Central Florida) will serve on the Research Committee. Shearon Roberts (Xavier University of LA) will serve on the Teaching Committee.
Teri Finneman (University of Kansas) hosted History Division members on Zoom for the recording of her interview with White House Reporter Jonathan Karl of ABC, author of Front Row at the Trump Show. The event is now available as a Journal History Podcast here.
Wendy Melillo (American University) has won this year’s Michael S. Sweeney award for her article “Democracy’s Adventure Hero on a New Frontier: Bridging Language in the Ad Council’s Peace Corps Campaign, 1961-1970.”