Create Connections
AHA Community Action and Resource Exchange
The AHA’s Community Action and Resource Exchange (CARE) program brings historians together to discuss shared professional issues and concerns, exchange ideas, and collaborate on strategies and solutions that strengthen the discipline. CARE is composed of working groups organized to discuss and share ideas, resources, and guidance to issues or concerns of professional interest to historians. CARE groups are select, member-organized, and member-led.
Affiliated Societies
Over 125 history-oriented organizations are affiliated with the AHA, representing a broad network of organizations promoting collaboration and communication across the history community.
AHA Communities
Members can communicate and collaborate with other historians in this online networking platform.
Our Career Contacts program arranges informational interviews between current PhD and history PhDs who have built careers beyond the professoriate.
Follow the AHA on social media platforms to stay up-to-date with our latest news and activities.
Help Make History Visible This September
Over 125 history-oriented organizations are affiliated with the AHA, representing a broad network of organizations promoting collaboration and communication across the history community.
Professional & Career Resources
Advance Your Career
As the leading professional association for historians in the United States, the AHA serves as a hub for information on jobs, careers, and employment in the historical discipline. The AHA provides guidance, information, and job listings for historians in all stages of their careers.
Where Historians Work
Where Historians Work is an interactive, online database that catalogs the career outcomes of historians who earned PhDs at universities in the United States from 2004 to 2017.
Career Paths
Read articles by historians about their career paths in Perspectives on History.
Reviewers in Digital History
The AHA can connect you to digital historians who can provide outside reviews for tenure and promotion cases and/or provide external peer review of digital history projects for career advancement purposes. Contact Alexandra Levy, director of communications & public affairs, for assistance finding an appropriate reviewer.
Academic Department Resources
History department chairs are on the front lines of the discipline, defending historians’ work and supporting their professional lives at all stages of their academic careers. The AHA strives to strengthen this work and provide resources and opportunities that make chairs’ work easier and valued.
AHA Career Center
Whether you’re looking to find a job or to advertise a position, the AHA Career Center is the go-to hub for connecting with history professionals.
Awards & Grants
Awards & Prizes
The AHA recognizes a wide variety of distinguished historical work, which can take the form of an exceptional book in the field, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, films, or digital projects and resources.
AHA Research Grants
Each year, the AHA awards several research grants with the aim of advancing the study and exploration of history in a variety of subject areas.
Teaching with Primary Sources Mid-Atlantic/US Territories Region
The AHA is proud to partner with the Library of Congress in serving the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Mid-Atlantic/US Territories Region.
Resources for the Discipline
Standards & Guidelines for the Discipline
The AHA has developed a series of best practices for excellence in professional behavior, research, and teaching.
Data on the Historical Discipline
The AHA collects and shares data on topics ranging from employment, to public engagement with history, to the use of educational resources in the classroom, and more.
Digital History Resources
The AHA offers resources on getting started in digital history, articles on doing digital history, and projects of interest.
Coalitions
Cross-disciplinary coalitions that provide greater access to networks, leadership, and resources that support the AHA’s mission.
Discover Historians and History Programs
Member News
To recognize our talented and eclectic membership, the AHA features a regular Member Spotlight series.
Institutional & Student Memberships
The AHA is committed to helping leaders navigate the challenges facing the discipline of history at colleges and universities, as well as in libraries, archives, and K–12 schools. Institutional members can purchase discounted student memberships for only $30 each.
Upcoming Opportunities
Calls for Opportunities Calendar
The AHA’s Calls for Opportunities Calendar shares upcoming calls for papers, conference proposals, and other activities. Anyone may submit opportunities of interest to historians to the calendar.
