Fortnightly News
 

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:

  1. March Perspectives on History – Now Online
  2. Council Approves Interest Groups in AHA
  3. Name that Decade – Results
  4. HistoriansTV – Videos from 2010 Annual Meeting
  5. AHA Today – Recent history news
  6. News from Washington – Updates from NHA and COSSA

 

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March Perspectives on History

In the March issue of Perspectives on History hear from AHA President Barbara D. Metcalf as she considers views of Lincoln in India in “Anniversary Anecdotes and Contesting Clichés” and Executive Director Arnita A. Jones as she presents “The Education of Historians for the Twenty-First Century Revisited.” This issue also addresses topics on writing history, using film and alternative methods in the classroom, the 124th annual meeting, and assorted news. Here are a few highlights:

See this recent blog post for a more detailed summary of the March issue of Perspectives on History.

 

Council Approves Interest Groups in AHA

Members of the American Historical Association will now be able to create interest groups (organized bodies of history specialists), under a policy approved by Council in January. The new interest groups are intended to supplement the existing affiliated societies—creating opportunities for new or underserved areas of topical and professional interest to develop within the AHA.

For more information see today’s blog post on AHA Today.

 

Name That Decade – Results

Late last year we asked AHA members and the public to name the decade, “offer[ing] their suggestions…for a catchy phrase that can wittily sum up the decade.” Ideas were submitted through the comment section on the blog. Then, at the beginning of this month, we asked you to cast your vote on the submissions. Well, the votes have been tallied, and the winner is: “The Lost Decade.” Congrats to Robert McCusker for submitting the winning phrase.

 

HistoriansTV

At the 124th Annual Meeting this past January, the AHA once again partnered with WebsEdge of London, UK to produce HistoriansTV.

This daily television program was broadcast on meeting hotel channels and featured interviews with AHA Council members, staff, and attendees of the meeting. HistoriansTV also produced reports on history programs at a number of universities.

All of this content from the 2010 Annual Meeting is now available online along with all the interviews and reports from the 2009 Meeting in New York.

HistoriansTV will once again be a part of the AHA’s Annual Meeting next January 2011 in Boston.

 

 

 

AHA Today

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

 

 

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 Humanities Alliance
Find the following and more in the February 26, 2010 NHA-Announce:

 

Consortium of Social Science Associations
COSSA Washington Update Volume 29, Issue 4 - Tokeep its constituency informed, the Consortium produces a biweekly newsletter, the COSSA Washington Update, that covers: Federal policies and debates relevant to social and behavioral scientists and sources of federal support for research.

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

 

 

 

Last Updated: March 12, 2010