To promote U.S. history education, the 
Published since 1985, each quarterly issue of the OAH Magazine of History focuses on a theme in U.S. history. Articles draw upon recent scholarship, survey the historiography, and provide practical teaching strategies. Its goal is to enhance the teaching and presentation of U.S. history in secondary and college classrooms, as well as in public history settings.
current issue:
Beyond Dixie: The Black Freedom Struggle Outside of the South
Montgomery. Selma. Birmingham. Memphis. The iconic sites of the post-World War II black freedom struggle are all located in the Jim Crow South. And yet, as this issue’s contributors remind us, African Americans around the nation—from Seattle to Milwaukee to New York—confronted and battled myriad forms of racism in that same period. They faced segregated schools, housing and job discrimination, unemployment, and police brutality. Despite the major gains they made, and the election of a black president in 2008, all of those problems are still with us today. Studying the history of the black freedom struggle “beyond Dixie” not only reveals hidden chapters of our past, but illuminates as well the origins of our present predicament in “post-racial” America.
This issue’s consulting editor is Patrick D. Jones. Jones is associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, specializing in the history of the civil rights/Black Power era. Jones is at the forefront of a new generation of scholars transforming the ways we understand the post–World War II struggle for racial justice by pushing the narrative “beyond Dixie” and into the urban North. In 2009, Harvard University Press published his award-winning book, The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee.
