As a companion to our list of books published by non-tenure-track historians in 2022, here is a list of journal articles (and a few book chapters) published by the same sorts of scholars. Unlike the book list, however, this is not a list you should use to go purchase access to these articles. If you click on a link below, encounter a charge for access, and pay it, none of that money will go to the author. Scholars are not paid for journal articles, nor do they earn royalties. Some of the pieces are not behind a paywall and they’ll be marked “OA” for open access. You can also contact the author directly, as they may have a copy of their piece they are allowed to share.
Hannah Alpert-Adams, “Finding Your Purpose,” Shalperta Press (2022) OA
Higher Calling is a project for everyone who decided to become a scholar because they believed in the mission of higher education. “Finding Your Purpose” is a workbook to help all of us navigate the contradictions between the work we are driven to do and the conditions we face in our working lives. “Finding Your Purpose” offers guided questions, exercises, and rituals to help you orient yourself in relation to your work; trace your lineage; identify your community; embrace sources of pleasure; articulate your values; and find your purpose.
Erin Bartram, “Does The Field Deserve Our Work?” Journal of the Early Republic 42, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 557-560. OA till 2/8/23
In the United States and in many other places around the world, the primary labor condition shaping scholarly production is the rapidly-diminishing number of tenure-track or equivalent positions that customarily supported scholars in this work. While there are some steps the JER could take to make it easier and more rewarding for those working without this support to share their research, steps that would also help tenure-track scholars in under-resourced positions, they will not make up for the knowledge production that continues to be lost with the collapse of academic hiring. If we desire a thriving field, collective action is the only path to a long-term solution.
Alan J. Clark and Henry McAllister, “Led to the Mountains: The Church of God in Christ Comes to Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly 90, no. 1 (2022): 40-56. OA
Kristin Franseen, “‘Everything You’ve Heard is True’: Resonating Musicological Anecdotes in Crime Fiction about Antonio Salieri,” Journal of Historical Fictions 4, no. 1 (2022): 41–60. OA
This article examines the recurring theme of unreliable anecdotes as historical ‘evidence’ in twentieth- and twenty-first-century fictional depictions of Antonio Salieri’s relationship with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Salieri’s later teaching career. These include appeals to supernatural experiences in Cedric Glover’s The Mysterious Barricades (1964) and the blending of historical documents and fictional interviews in David Weiss’s The Assassination of Mozart (1970). Many post-Amadeus literary defences of Salieri — including Dieter Kühn’s postmodern novella Ein Mozart in Galizien (2008) and Ian Kyer’s quasi-procedural Damaging Winds (2013) — also take on the quality of mysteries, with protagonists seeking historical truth as a form of justice. The conclusions of these stories depict the uncovering of some musicological ‘verdict’ as similar to the crime novel’s unveiling of a guilty culprit.
Duncan Money and Limin Teh, “Race at Work: A Comparative History of Mining Labor and Empire on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun Coalfields, c. 1907-1945,” International Labor and Working-Class History 101 (2022): 1-18. OA
In many ways, the vast industrial complexes that developed on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun coalfields in the early twentieth century were very different places. One on a high plateau stretched out across the border between what is now Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia with a sub-tropical climate; the other on the rolling foothills of Changbai Mountains in what is now Liaoning Province, northeastern China, with a humid continental climate. Yet anyone who visited either of these places would immediately and unavoidably have become aware of a basic fact about both: that racial hierarchies governed life and work on the mines. This article is about that basic fact, and in it we aim to make a two-fold contribution: First, it is a comparative history of mining regions, which, although it might seem an area of study ripe for comparison, is seldom undertaken. Second, through this comparison to argue that the prevalence and significance of race as a way of organizing life and work in the mining industry has been underestimated.
Duncan Money, ‘‘’Ain’t I a bastard, well I received my training in Aussie’: The life of Frank Maybank, an Australian trade unionist in Central Africa,” Labour History 122, no. 1 (2022): 131-154.
This article examines the working life of Frank Maybank (1901–94), a self-described Australian trade unionist on the Central African Copperbelt. Maybank was in many ways a worker of the world, he lived and worked in several countries and did all manner of jobs. The job he held the longest was General Secretary of the whites-only mineworkers’ union on the Copperbelt, where his militancy was closely informed by his experiences in, and contacts with, the Australian labour movement. This article uses Maybank’s biography both to show the transnational connections that existed and to argue that the relative weakness of those connections allowed information about different places to be misrepresented. What this article terms “strategic misunderstandings” allowed distant events and movements to be misrepresented to suit domestic audiences and concerns in Australia and on the Copperbelt. In addition, this paper reflects on how the practice of writing transnational history and how the uneven nature of digitised sources may shape the development of this sub-field.
Diana Moore, “The arrests of Alberto and Jessie White Mario: Gender, British-Italian Relations, and the Ideals of British Justice,” Rassegna storica del Risorgimento 108, no. 2 (July/December 2021): 76-97.
Erin Mysogland, “‘Where’s Your Birth Certificate, Pilgrim?’: Analyzing Double Age In Immigration Policing and Chicano Community Organizing, 1975-1985,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 15, no. 3, (Fall 2022): 422-433.
In the late 1970s, Mexican youth began migrating to the US in growing numbers, expanding the “era of undocumented immigration” beyond a circular movement of adult male workers . . . Policing in San Diego’s Chicano communities also increased as the policies of the “unconditional war on poverty” and “war against crime” criminalized youth of color. As the deportation machine coalesced with the carceral state, police denied Chicano and migrant youth the protections of childhood through deportation and detention. This article examines two cases of immigration police wrongfully deporting youth—a fourteen-year-old and a fifteen-year-old—to uncover how a “double age” based on race, ethnicity, and citizenship expanded deportability. It also uses the contemporaneous practice of detaining migrant youth at the Metropolitan Correctional Center to show how double age enabled the exclusions of older youth from reforms in detention practices. Using the lens of double age to understand the tension between the age of these detained and deported youth and their treatment by police demonstrates how the selective application of a protected childhood served to expand policing.
Jordan Taylor, “Circulation, Subscription, and Circumscription: The Pennsylvania Journal and Newspaper Readership in Revolutionary Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 146, no. 2 (April 2022): 134-160.
How many people read newspapers in early America? This is an important question for historians of the American Revolution, who rely on a model of widespread newspaper readership to explain broadscale political change. Yet given the limitations of the documentary record, addressing this question has required scholars to rely on a great deal of guesswork and anecdotal evidence. Building on an analysis of the subscription books of the Pennsylvania Journal from 1766 through early 1774, in dialogue with two Canadian subscription lists from the late eighteenth century, this essay embarks on a more empirically grounded approach to questions of newspaper readership and subscription in revolutionary America. Newspapers were not, as some have concluded, read widely among all classes. Instead, regular access to newspapers usually coincided with social privilege, in ways that trouble some of the prevailing narratives of political mobilization during the American Revolution.
Peter Webster, “Theology, providence and Anglican-Methodist reunion: the case of Michael Ramsey and E. L. Mascall” in Anglican-Methodist Ecumenism: The Search for Church Unity, 1920-2020, eds. Jane Platt and Martin Wellings (Routledge, 2022), 102-17.
Peter Webster, “Archbishop Michael Ramsey and the Lambeth Conference,” Anglican and Episcopal History 91, no. 2 (2022): 152-75. OA
Mackenzie Weinger, “’To Terrorize the Public Mind’: How the British Press Reported the Fenian Dynamite Campaign, 1881–1885,” Journalism History 48, no. 1 (2022): 81-98.
This study examines the coverage in the British print media of the Fenian dynamite campaign of 1881–1885. By examining a selection of the newspaper reporting done in the immediate days following the bomb blasts in urban centers, it can be seen that the press framed the campaign as a dramatic threat to the British people—but one they would overcome, even in the face of a frightening, unpredictable technological innovation that could put civilians in jeopardy. The metropolitan newspapers helped to shape how the British people understood the urban terrorist attacks. The press delivered to their readers vivid details about the novel and extraordinary nature of the dynamite threat, while also framing the shocking news to make their own political message and establish the narrative that even though it was under threat, Britain would triumph and hold fast to its place in the world—and onto its empire.