Perspectives
Jul 07, 2020 - Grant of the Week: Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest Covid-19 Grants
The Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest is now accepting applications for its Covid-19 Grants.
Jul 06, 2020 - Productivity Moves with Our Bodies
Living through a pandemic shifted one historian's approach to both her own productivity and the women she studies.
Jul 02, 2020 - AHA Member Spotlight: E. Natalie Rothman
E. Natalie Rothman is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. She lives in Toronto, Canada, and has been a member since 2004.
Jul 01, 2020 - Public Service versus Business
The crisis of the United States Postal Service today reflects a long-standing clash over service, business, and labor interests.
Jun 30, 2020 - Grant of the Week: MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) is now accepting applications for its Arline Custer Memorial Award.
Jun 29, 2020 - Archiving a Plague Year
A crowdsourced digital public archive is chronicling daily life during COVID-19.
Jun 26, 2020 - From a BA to the AHA
Megan Connor has found that the critical thinking she learned as a history major has been essential to her career...
Jun 24, 2020 - The COVID Commencement
How universities around the country created remote commencement ceremonies during COVID-19.
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Jul 08, 2020 - AHA Opposes New ICE Obstacles to Students from Foreign Countries (July 2020)
The AHA has written a letter to the “Deputy Director and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director” of US Immigration and…
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Jul 06, 2020 - AHA Executive Director Quoted in Washington Post (July 2020)
AHA executive director Jim Grossman was quoted in the Washington Post article “Historians question Trump's choice of ‘heroes' for national…
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Jul 01, 2020 - AHA Member Wins Lifetime Achievement Award (June 2020)
AHA member Alan I Marcus (Mississippi State Univ.) recently won the Gladys L. Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Agricultural History…
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Jun 25, 2020 - AHA Member Named Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow (June 2020)
Congratulations to AHA member Nichole Nelson (Yale Univ.), who was recently named as one of 22 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows. The program, sponsored by…
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Jun 25, 2020 - Former AHA President Appointed Dean at Fordham (June 2020)
Former AHA president Tyler Stovall (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) was recently appointed as the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at…
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Jun 24, 2020 - AHA and NCSS Host Webinar on Teaching the History of Racist Violence in the High School Classroom (June 2020)
On June 19, 2020, the American Historical Association (AHA) and the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) hosted a panel on effectively using…
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