Fortnightly News
 

Dear AHA Member,

Fortnightly News is the AHA's e-mail newsletter, sent out twice a month to keep members up to date with the AHA and the history profession.

In this issue:

  1. American Historical Review - June Issue Online
  2. New Association Management System
  3. Is There an E-book in Your Future? A Report from the University Presses
  4. AHA Today – Recent history news
  5. Listing in the Directory
  6. News from Washington – Updates from NCH, NHA, and COSSA

 

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American Historical Review – June Issue Online

Note: AHA Members, login to member services to access the full text from these articles.

The June issue of the American Historical Review is now available online at the University of Chicago Press web site. It includes two articles on food in early modern colonial contexts, a piece on the history of language in official efforts to create a “national language” in Meiji Japan, an analysis of an all but forgotten U.S. congressional act that freed the wives and children of slaves who enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, and an AHR Exchange on “The ‘Myth’ of the ‘Weak’ American State.” There are also five featured reviews followed by our normal extensive book review section. “In Back Issues” calls attention to articles and features in the AHR from one hundred, seventy-five, and fifty years ago.

See more detailed descriptions of the contents of the June issue of the American Historical Review in this recent AHA Today blog post.

 

 

 

 

 

New Association Management System

The AHA is still in the final testing stages for the new membership system. Web forms for renewing and updating membership information should be back online by the end of the week.

 

 

Is There an E-book in Your Future? A Report from the University Presses

In a recent blog post, Robert B. Townsend reports on the annual meeting of Association of American University Presses (AAUP), where “history was described as a vital part of the work and catalogs of most university presses.” Townsend goes on to discuss the “waning market for traditional print publications and ongoing experiments with digital forms.” Read his complete blog post on AHA Today, for the full story.

 

 

AHA Today

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

 

 

Listing in the Directory

Departments and Organizations

Time is running out to add or update listings in the Directory!  Institutions that have previously listed in the Directory can make changes to their entry online: http://www.historians.org/members/dosp/.

Your institution’s login information has been sent by e-mail and by regular mail to department contacts. If you are in charge of one of the listing departments or organizations and did not receive a communication from us, please write to directory10@historians.org for assistance as soon as possible. And if your department or organization is not currently listed, but you think it should be, please contact us for more information.

Please log in and review your institution’s Directory listing immediately and let us know if you will or will not be listing this year. Updates to Directory entries must be received before August 1, 2010, to be included in the print edition, but further changes can be made online throughout the year for the digital Directory.
     

 

 

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.

National Coalition for History

  • Nation’s Historians Speak Out Against Proposed Gettysburg Casino
    On July 1, 276 American historians sent a letter to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board in opposition to a proposal to license a casino located one-half mile from the Gettysburg National Military Park.

  • House Panel Clears NHPRC Reauthorization Bill
    On July 1, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and the National Archives marked up legislation (H.R. 5616) to reauthorize the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) at a $20 million level from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2015. The vote was 6-1 in favor of passage.

     

National Humanities Alliance

 

 

 

Consortium of Social Science Associations

 

 

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Contributions to this issue of Fortnightly News came from: David Darlington, Elisabeth Grant, Vernon Horn, Pillarisetti Sudhir, Liz Townsend, and Robert B. Townsend

 

 

Last Updated: July 6, 2010