Perspectives
Apr 17, 2019 - AHA Member Spotlight: Elizabeth Ann Bryant
Liz Bryant is a professor of history at Houston Community College.
Apr 16, 2019 - Puff, Puff, Pass
A booming kid-oriented paraphernalia marketplace unraveled efforts to legalize cannabis in the 1970s and 1980s.
Apr 15, 2019 - The Fate of the “AHA Interview”
Should the AHA get out of the business of hosting job interviews altogether?
Apr 12, 2019 - Grant of the Week: American Heritage Center Travel Grant
The American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming is accepting applications for travel grants until April 15.
Apr 10, 2019 - Dealing with a Fragile Past
Two essays consider the problem of losing the past, either through accidental destruction or through censorship.
Apr 09, 2019 - Reexamining Amritsar
A new book challenges what we think we know about the British Raj’s bloodiest massacre.
Apr 08, 2019 - Getting Tenure with Digital History
Scholars hired to do “nontraditional” history will be evaluated by traditional criteria.
Apr 02, 2019 - Un/Becoming America
If we have thrown over exclusionary, nationalist myths, what can we offer in their place?
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Apr 16, 2019 - AHA Member to Participate in Texas Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers
Miguel A. Martinez, AHA member and social studies teacher at Northwest Early College High School, has been accepted as a Summer Scholar through the…
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Apr 12, 2019 - Update on Stephens Point Humanities Majors
The American Historical Association is gratified to learn that the University of Wisconsin-Stephens Point has reversed course on a plan to trim…
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Apr 12, 2019 - AHA Member Wins Dissertation Fellowship
AHA member Jillian Vaum (Univ. of Pennsylvania) is one of 11 graduate students to be honored with a 2019 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American…
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Apr 09, 2019 - AHA Members Among 2019 SHFG Winners
Congratulations to AHA members J. Samuel Walker and Matthew R. Pembleton for receiving awards from the Society for Historians in the Federal…
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Apr 05, 2019 - Historians Receive 2019 NEH Grants
On March 28, 2019, the NEH announced that it would provide $28.6 million to support 233 humanities projects nationwide. "These new NEH-supported…
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Apr 02, 2019 - ACLS Awards 2019 Fellowships to AHA Members
The American Council of Learned Societies announced its list of fellows for 2019. Out of the 81 awardees, 24 fellows are members of the Association.…
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