The American West has been a fertile seedbed for opposition to environmental reform. James Morton Turner argues that populist opposition to environmental reform from the 1970s into the 1990s did not emerge most forcefully in battles over pollution, toxins, and other threats to public health, but in response to liberal Democrats and environmentalists’ championing of a new federal role in addressing long-standing issues such as wilderness protection. Through its national agenda, beginning in the 1970s the Republican party successfully harnessed growing anger over public lands protection. Republicans thereby made public lands, especially those in the West, an issue essential to the rise of the conservative Right in the postwar era.
“Teaching the JAH” uses online tools to bridge the gap between the latest scholarly research in U.S. history and the practice of classroom teaching. JAH authors demonstrate how featured articles might be taught in a U.S. history survey course.
December 2008
“Worth a Lot of Negro Votes”: Black Voters, Africa, and the 1960 Presidential Campaign
—James H. Meriwether
June 2008
Reconfiguring the Old South:
“Solving the Problem of Slavery,” 1787–1838
—Lacy Ford
September 2007
Houses Divided: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Political Landscape of 1858
—Allen C. Guelzo
June 2007
The Army in the Marketplace: Recruiting an All-Volunteer Force
by Beth Bailey
December 2006
Dorothea Lange: The Photographer as Agricultural Sociologist
by Linda Gordon
March 2006
Demobilizing Chicago, 1943–1953
by Laura McEnnaney