Perspectives
Dec 14, 2018 - Voting Now Open for 2019 Name that Cocktail! Contest
Help us name the AHA19 signature mixed drinks.
Dec 13, 2018 - The Degradation of History
Concern for the state of archives should not require spectacular events like fire or armed conflict.
Dec 12, 2018 - AHA Member Spotlight: Frank Valadez
Frank Valadez is director of the Division for Public Education at the American Bar Association.
Dec 03, 2018 - Steampunk for Historians
What’s with those people who look like Victorians imagining the future?
Nov 29, 2018 - “We’re Not Just Students, We Are Organizers”
In 1963, Black students desegregated Chicago’s schools. In 2018, student activists are drawing inspiration from their predecessors.
Nov 28, 2018 - A Career in Development
Fundraising was not Garland’s first career choice. But accidentally falling into it changed her life.
Nov 26, 2018 - The History BA since the Great Recession
The long-term patterns revealed by the most recent data might point the way forward.
Nov 20, 2018 - Cataloging Black Knowledge
A “bibliomaniac” forged an alternative to Eurocentric library classifications.
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Dec 07, 2018 - New York Times Publishes Op-Ed by AHA Member
On December 1, Ana Minian, AHA member and professor of history at Stanford University, wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times discussing…
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Dec 07, 2018 - Former AHA President Receives Prestigious Faculty Award
On November 26, William Roger Louis, former AHA president and Kerr Chair in English History and Culture, Distinguished Teaching Professor, and…
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Dec 04, 2018 - AHA Member Weighs in on Confederate Monuments Controversy
On November 30, James Leloudis, AHA member and professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published an article in the…
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Nov 27, 2018 - AHA Council Members Discuss History Education in the Washington Post
On November 22, Jim Grossman, AHA executive director, and Sophia Rosenfeld, AHA vice president, Research Division, offered thoughts on history…
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Nov 27, 2018 - AHA Asks NARA for Careful Consideration of Department of Interior Disposition Request
On November 26, the AHA sent a letter to Archivist of the United States David Ferriero expressing concern regarding the current records disposition…
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Nov 15, 2018 - AHA Past President Tyler Stovall Interviewed on Anniversary of WWI Armistice
On November 9, 2018, Tyler Stovall, AHA past president and professor of history and dean of humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz,…
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