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Dear AHA Member,

Fortnightly News is the AHA's e-mail newsletter, sent out around the first and fifteenth of every month to keep members up to date with the AHA and the history profession.

In this issue:

Publications

  1. Program of the Annual Meeting – Now Online
  2. American Historical Review – October Issue
  3. Perspectives on History – October 2009
  4. Directory – Free Trial Now Over
  5. Annual Report 2008 – Now Online

 

AHA News

  1. South Asian History Book Prize – Help Establish
  2. Task Force on Historians with Disabilities – Mentors Needed
  3. ArchivesWiki – New and Updated Entries
  4. AHA Today – Recent history news
  5. 125th Anniversary Fund

 

Other News

  1. News from Washington – Updates from NCH, COSSA, and NHA
  2. Calendar – History Events

 

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Program of the Annual Meeting

The Program for the 124th Annual Meeting is now available online. Use it to:

Highlighted Sessions
Every year sessions at the annual meeting cover an impressive range of places, time periods, topics, and themes. Here is just a glimpse of the range of presentations scheduled for the annual meeting:

More Information
For more Annual Meeting information see the 2010 Annual Meeting page online. There you will find information on registering for the meeting, accommodations, transportation, and more. Also see the AHA web site for Job Center info, Exhibit Hall details, and instructions on how to submit proposals for the 2011 meeting.

 

 

American Historical Review
October Issue Online

The October 2009 issue of the American Historical Review is now on-line at the University of Chicago Press. It contains two forums, one on “Truth and Reconciliation in History;” the other on “Taylor Branch’s America during the King Years.”

There is also our usual extensive book review section. In addition, readers will discover something new: Following “In this Issue,” we introduce “In Back Issues,” an attempt to draw attention to our extensive inventory of articles by taking a look at what was in the AHR 100, 50, and 25 years ago.

For a complete description of the contents of the October issue of the AHR see this recent blog post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perspectives on History – October 2009

This month, in the October issue of Perspectives on History, get ready for the 124th AHA Annual Meeting, keep up with AHA news and activities, learn the news from Washington, read about training teachers of world history, and go to the movies.

Annual Meeting
Thoughts are turning to the upcoming 124th Annual Meeting in San Diego this January 7-10, 2010. Karen Halttunen, the AHA’s vice president, teaching division, starts off by highlighting the miniconference on “Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage” to be held at the meeting. Read her description of the event, and see the right-hand side bar for a complete list of all events. Also annual meeting related:

AHA News, Activities, and Articles
A couple of AHA news items are mentioned this month, including: the establishment of a new Technology Advisory Committee and an invitation for nominations for the 2010 AHA election.

Also check out William M. Ferraro’s look back at “The AHA and the George Washington Bicentennial in 1932.”

From Washington and our Affiliates
From Washington, the “Senate Bids Farewell to Historian Baker” and Lee White, director of the National Coalition for History, lays out “The Fiscal 2010 Federal Budget.” Meanwhile, Miriam Hauss Cunningham reports on the National History Center’s Summer Institute on Immigration, held in July 2009.

Teaching
A Forum on Training Teachers of World History features Robert Bain and Lauren McArthur Harris, who provide the introduction to the forum, followed by Sharon Cohen’s “Teaching Teachers of World History,” Peter N. Stearns’ “Getting the Big Picture: Teaching World History Teachers,” and Barbara Tischler’s “Teaching World History: Issues and Possibilities.”

All of this and more is included in the October 2009 issue of Perspectives on History. See this recent blog post for a more complete wrap-up.

 

 

 

Directory – Online Edition

The two week free trial of the Directory of History Departments and Organizations online is now over.

Purchase Full Access
The limited version remains free. Full access to that advanced features of the online Directory will remain accessible to members and institutions who have subscribed or purchased a subscription through the Pubs Shop. Members who are belong to the Member Services Program (MSP) also have full access.

Send us your feedback
If you had a chance to use the online Directory, please let us know what you think about it, and how it might be improved, by e-mailing us at feedback@historians.org.

 

 

 

Annual Report 2008

The AHA’s Annual Report for 2008 is now available online. It contains a preface from former AHA president Gabrielle M. Spiegel, reports from Council, lists of members (25-year, honorary, and life), and donors to the association. You’ll also find minutes from the 123rd business meeting, council decisions, and the financial report (PDF). Check out executive director Arnita Jones’s report for a broad overview of 2008. Find all of this and more in the 2008 Annual Report online.

 

 

South Asian History Book Prize

Please help endow a book prize for South Asian History!

Historical work on South Asia has become increasingly prominent and influential in the world academy in recent decades. Numerous books written about the region have deeply influenced scholarship on other parts of the world. South Asian history is now taught at a growing number of colleges and universities worldwide.

These developments make it all the more necessary for supporters of South Asian scholarship to come forward to assist the AHA in its effort to create an endowed prize for the best book on the history of the region. This is all the more pressing because every other major world region is now represented in the list of twenty book prizes awarded by the AHA. By bringing the best new work to the attention of the scholarly and journalistic community each year, a book prize will reaffirm the significance of South Asian history to the historical discipline as a whole.

We therefore hope that you will join us by making a contribution to the endowment. $50,000 is needed to support the creation of an annual prize.

South Asian historians in the AHA decided this spring to name the prize in memory of John Folsom Richards, a distinguished historian noted for his generosity, breadth of vision, and the collegial quality of his many academic ventures at Duke University and elsewhere.

Please refer to this form (PDF) for instructions on how to contribute. And visit a longer version of this letter for more information.

 

AHA Task Force on Disability Mentorship Program for Historians

Query for Potential Mentors
Graduate study in history is arduous for all students. Graduate students with disabilities face distinctive issues. The AHA Task Force on Historians with Disabilities believes that historians who themselves understand disability experiences firsthand could aid such students in how to deal with disability-related issues in graduate historical studies and the development of their careers.

If you are interested in mentoring a graduate student with a disability(ies), contact Paul Longmore at longmore@sfsu.edu. The Task Force will keep all information you provide strictly confidential.

 

 

ArchivesWiki – New and Updated Entries

Here are some of the archival institutions that have been recently added or updated on the AHA's ArchivesWiki. We hope you will find them useful, and will add any information about them you may have about them, or other institutions.

 

 

AHA Today

Keep up with the latest information on history and the profession on the AHA’s blog, AHA Today. Recent posts include:

 

 

 

125th Anniversary Fund

donate

We have already received generous support from many members of the Association. If you have not yet contributed, and would like to aid in the expansion of the Association’s public programs and outreach efforts, we hope you will give your support to the AHA 125th Anniversary Fund.

You can contribute to the fund online at www.historians.org/give or by check to AHA Anniversary Fund, 400 A St. S.E., Washington, DC 20003.

 

 

 

 

News from Washington

In addition to AHA Today, the Association also draws on the efforts of a number of coalitions that support the Association's agenda to keep track of issues in the nation’s capital that will be of concern to historians. Here are news updates from some of them.

 

 

 

Calendar

The AHA’s online calendar lists upcoming meetings and seminars, research opportunities, awards and fellowships, internet resources, and exhibitions. Contribute your own announcement through this online form. Below we offer snippets of some of the current listings.

  • Call for Papers: China and the West—"The Reception of Chinese Art across cultures from the 15th Century to the Present." Submission deadline is November 9, 2009.

  • Conference: New England Museum Association Conference— "Promises to Keep: Vision and Value in Museums," November 11-13, 2009.

  • Call for Papers: Perspectives on Cross-Cultural History—Conference at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, March 19-20, 2010. The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2009.

Read more about all of these events and more at the AHA’s online calendar.

 

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Contributions to this issue of Fortnightly News came from: David Darlington, Elisabeth Grant, Vernon Horn, Arnita A. Jones, Robert A. Schneider, and Robert B. Townsend

 

 

Last Updated: October 30, 2009