AHA Tuning Project

The AHA Tuning project seeks to articulate the central habits of mind, skills, and understanding that students achieve when they study history. Beginning in 2012, this project has brought together accomplished history faculty from a range of 2- and 4-year institutions across the country to define the core disciplinary elements of historical study and the goals of the undergraduate history major.

Other Perspectives Articles on Assessment and Outcomes

Supported by a grant from the NEH's Bridging Cultures initiative, the AHA's "American History, Atlantic and Pacific" professional development program for Community College faculty promotes a global perspective on US history at the country's increasingly diverse two-year institutions.  The program draws on a generation of innovative scholarship that has reframed the origins of the US within a broad geographical and chronological context. Participants worked to create or revise US history courses with lessons, units, and other work that deepens teaching on the US in the world.

Assessing Dual Enrollment: Is High School the Future of Higher Education?

A Perspectives on History forum from September 2015

AHA Statement on Dual/Concurrent Enrollment

In January 2016, AHA Council approved a statement regarding best practices in dual enrollment/concurrent enrollment (DE/CE) courses that was drafted by the Teaching Division.

AHA16 Session on History and Dual/Concurrent Enrollment (on YouTube)

This roundtable held at the 2016 AHA annual meeting in Atlanta provides insights about concurrent enrollment and some of its implications.

Modeled on the National History Center's Congressional Briefings by Historians program, the M History and Policy Education Program (HPEP provides a guide to enable educators and students to craft public briefings on the historical background of policy questions facing local or state leaders. The guide includes an overview, learning outcomes, sample assignments, and practical tips on organizing public briefings.