Perspectives
Sep 10, 2021 - AHA Member Spotlight: Victor M. Uribe-Uran
Victor M. Uribe-Uran is a professor of history and law and chair of the history department at Florida International University.
Sep 09, 2021 - The Professor as a Primary Source
In telling students about her experiences on September 11, 2001, Julianne Johnson makes herself the primary source—and demonstrates the interplay of history, testimony, and memory.
Sep 08, 2021 - Biography’s Occupational Hazards
As a biographer, Jacqueline Jones found herself wondering how she should deal with aspects of her subject's life that left her baffled, even mystified.
Sep 07, 2021 - Townhouse Notes
The Perspectives author pool is slightly more diverse than the AHA's membership, but content skews to covering the United States, current events, and public history.
Sep 03, 2021 - Grant of the Week: Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute is is now accepting applications for the Radcliffe Fellowship.
Sep 01, 2021 - Professional Practice and Effort Rewarded
Should undergraduate students attend the AHA annual meeting? One attendee emphatically says yes.
Aug 31, 2021 - Advocacy Briefs
From April to July, the AHA was busy in the advocacy realm.
Aug 31, 2021 - Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism and American History
The AHA Council approved this statement on June 16, 2021.
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Sep 10, 2021 - AHA and Fairleigh Dickinson University Survey Featured in Media Coverage (September 2021)
The national survey recently released by the AHA and Fairleigh Dickinson University was featured in the Batesville Daily Guard, the Monroe Times, and…
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Sep 10, 2021 - Learn from History Coalition Featured in Education Week (September 2021)
The Learn from History Coalition, of which the AHA is a founding member, was featured in an Education Week article by Sarah Schwartz. The “new…
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Sep 09, 2021 - AHA Member Publishes Book on Nationalism and Belonging in Prague (September 2021)
AHA member Chad Bryant (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) published his book, Prague: Belonging in the Modern City with Harvard University Press…
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Sep 09, 2021 - AHA Member Appointed Interim Director of NYPL’s Cullman Center (September 2021)
AHA member Martha Hodes (New York Univ.) has been appointed to a two-year term as interim director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for…
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Sep 08, 2021 - AHA Joins Learn from History Coalition (September 2021)
The AHA is a founding member of the Learn from History Coalition. Organized by Stand for Children, Learn from History is a coalition of parents,…
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Aug 31, 2021 - AHA Member Appointed to Commission by North Carolina Governor (August 2021)
AHA member Arwin Smallwood (North Carolina A&T Univ.) has been appointed by North Carolina governor Roy Cooper to the Tryon Palace Commission.…
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Sep 13 2021
Virtual Event | Talking to The Chronicle - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Sep 15 2021
Call for Submissions | Metropolitan Museum Journal
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Sep 15 2021
Call for Applications | Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History Seminar, Fall 2021 | "Constitutions in Conflict: Proslavery versus Antislavery"
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