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Are You Sitting Up Straight? America’s Obsession with Improving Posture
News
Laura Ansley | May 9, 2024
In Beth Linker’s new book, she applies a disability studies lens to the history of posture.
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Are We the Virus? What a Meme Reveals about Planetary Health
Features
Caitlin Kossmann | May 8, 2024
Memes at the height of the pandemic point to a deeper cultural conversation.
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Archives of a Different Sort: Marking the Battlefields of War
From the President
Thavolia Glymph | Apr 3, 2024
What is at stake when we memorialize a place as a battlefield?
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Join Us for #AHAReads 2024: The Third Annual AHA Summer Reading Challenge
AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily
Laura Ansley | May 6, 2024
From June to Labor Day, read along with other historians.
Most Recent
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What’s Being Taught?
James Grossman | May 2, 2024
AHA research explores what is mandated and taught in secondary US history classrooms.
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Defining History’s Future
L. Renato Grigoli | May 1, 2024
Perspectives invites submissions on broadening the definition of historical scholarship for the 2024–25 publication year.
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Advocacy Briefs
Rebecca L. West | Apr 30, 2024
The AHA continues its state- and institution-level advocacy in the United States and advocates for a historian abroad.
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A Trading Card Collection
David K. Wessel | Apr 25, 2024
Not all childhood memorabilia are innocent.
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William Hansberry (1894–1965)
Mark Lewin | Apr 24, 2024
This Long Overdue tribute honors Horacio Roque Ramírez, historian of Africa at Howard University, wbo died on November 3, 1965.