Perspectives

• Mar 26, 2019 - One Is a Lonely Demographic

  An AHA19 panel discussed the unique professional demands faced by faculty of color.

  
  

• Mar 25, 2019 - Not So Evident

  How social science experts helped create the idea that immigration was a problem for the federal government to fix.

  
  

• Mar 22, 2019 - Grant of the Week: Fellowships from the Association for Computing Machinery

  The Association for Computing Machinery History Committee is accepting proposals for research fellowships until April 1.

  
  

• Mar 21, 2019 - AHA Member Spotlight: Mark R. Jacobson

  Mark R. Jacobson is the John J. McCloy ’16 Professor of American Institutions and International Diplomacy at Amherst College.

  
  

• Mar 20, 2019 - Prosecuting Torture

  Intended to enable the prosecution of torturers, the legislation ended up as sand in the gears of the War on Terror.

  
  

• Mar 11, 2019 - White Lies

  The claims, scholars say, muddle the distinctions between ancestry and citizenship.

  
  

• Mar 11, 2019 - Plan S and the Humanities

  Plan S is pushing academic journal publishing to an open access model. But is that good for all scholarship?

  
  

• Mar 11, 2019 - Academic Activists

  The story of historians who came together in 1969 to press for greater inclusion of women in the AHA—and those who carry on their work.