Perspectives
Dec 10, 2019 - Grant of the Week: United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship
The United States Capitol Historical Society is now accepting applications for its 2020-2021 Fellowship.
Dec 09, 2019 - Interrogating the Archive
Faculty at the University of Minnesota incorporated university debates over institutional history into their international graduate course.
Dec 06, 2019 - Name that Mocktail and Cocktail! 2020
Help us name signature drinks for the 2020 AHA annual meeting.
Dec 06, 2019 - Murder, Vice, and More
Love true crime podcasts or documentaries? Check out these sessions at the annual meeting.
Dec 05, 2019 - Speaking Up
Outgoing president John R. McNeill calls on historians to speak up in times of turmoil.
Dec 04, 2019 - Townhouse Notes
Editor Allison Miller bids farewell to readers.
Dec 02, 2019 - Revising Revisited
As the profession has changed, so must we change the words we use to describe it.
Nov 25, 2019 - Buried Treasures
Everything has a history—including the time capsule.
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Dec 09, 2019 - History Graduate Student Released from Iranian Prison
On Saturday December 7, Iranian authorities released a historian, Xiyue Wang, who had been held for three years in Evin prison in Tehran on suspicion…
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Dec 06, 2019 - AHA Member Contextualizes Paid Maternity Leave in New York Times Op-Ed
AHA member Mona Siegel, professor of history at California State University, Sacramento, published an op-ed in the New York Times drawing attention to…
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Dec 03, 2019 - AHA Member Discusses Indigenous History on NPR Podcast
Anderson Hagler, AHA member and PhD candidate at Duke University, will be featured on an episode of NPR's The Academic Minute as he analyzes how…
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Oct 25, 2019 - AHA Pushes for Reauthorization of Title VI College Affordability Act
The AHA joined 30 other organizations expressing their support for reauthorization of the College Affordability Act, a federally funded Title…
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Oct 21, 2019 - AHA Comments on Proposed NLRB Rule Change
The National Labor Relations Board is considering a rule change that would diminish the right of graduate students at private universities to organize…
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Oct 07, 2019 - AHA Member Discusses Impeachment Procedures on NPR
Donald Ritchie, AHA member and emeritus historian of the Senate, detailed the procedures for impeachment and trial of a president on an episode…
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