Perspectives
Oct 26, 2020 - Partners in Scholarship
Departments and their tenure-track faculty should work to ameliorate the difficulties contingent faculty experience, especially during COVID-19.
Oct 23, 2020 - Abstract of the 2020 Presidential Address
The 2020 Presidential Address will occur virtually in the first week of January 2021.
Oct 22, 2020 - Expanding the Genre
In You Never Forget Your First, Alexis Coe breaks away from hagiography to craft a biography of George Washington that appeals to new audiences.
Oct 21, 2020 - History, Deliberation, and Civic Culture
Historical exploration in the classroom and beyond can indeed engender and exacerbate conflict, but such exposure is essential for any true movement toward national unity.
Oct 20, 2020 - Practicing History
SUNY Cortland decided to require a public history course because of its potential to attract new students, retain majors, and...
Oct 19, 2020 - American Historical Association Announces 2020 Prize Winners
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2020 prizes.
Oct 19, 2020 - “If Anybody Says Election to Me, I Want to Fight”
The election of 1876 can shed light on how the nation's political institutions operate during a crisis of democracy.
Oct 16, 2020 - AHA Member Spotlight: Young Richard Kim
Young Richard Kim is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois,...
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Oct 22, 2020 - AHA Member Featured on Podcast (October 2020)
AHA member Terrance Rucker (Office of the Historian, US House of Representatives) recently appeared as a guest on the podcast Ben Franklin’s…
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Oct 21, 2020 - AHA Member Receives Gutenberg Teaching Award (October 2020)
AHA member Mills Kelly (George Mason Univ.) was recently awarded the 2019 Gutenberg Teaching Award by the Gutenberg Teaching Council at Johannes…
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Oct 20, 2020 - AHA Issues Letter Expressing Grave Concern for Russian Historian (October 2020)
The AHA recently sent a letter to the chairman of the Supreme Court of Karelia expressing “grave concern” for Yuri Dmitriev, a Russian…
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Oct 14, 2020 - AHA Member Named as 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalist (October 2020)
Congratulations to AHA member Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (Univ. of California, Berkeley), whose book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave…
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Oct 13, 2020 - AHA Urges Retraction of Executive Order Prohibiting the Inclusion of “Divisive Concepts” in Employee Training Sessions (October 2020)
In response to the president’s recent executive order prohibiting the inclusion of “divisive concepts” in employee training…
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Oct 13, 2020 - AHA Member Writes Piece in the Virginian-Pilot (October 2020)
AHA member E. M. Rose has recently published an opinion piece, “History Shows the Overblown Value of Political Image” in the…
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