News & Advocacy
News
The latest activity of the AHA and historians in supporting history and historical thinking.
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AHA Council Member Elected to Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools (June 2020)
Jun 05, 2020 -AHA Council member Reginald K. Ellis Jr. (Florida A&M Univ.) has recently been elected to serve as secretary of the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools. The council recently celebrated its 50-year anniversary.
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AHA Member Wins Two Awards for Article (June 2020)
Jun 05, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA member Bathsheba Demuth (Brown Univ.), whose article "The Walrus and the Bureaucrat: Energy, Ecology, and Making the State in the Russian and American Arctic, 1870-1950," published in the American Historical Review, has won two awards: the 2020 Theodore C. Blegen Award from the Forest History Society and the 2019 Article Prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
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AHA Issues Statement on the History of Racist Violence in the United States (June 2020)
Jun 04, 2020 -The AHA has issued a statement urging a reckoning with the United States' deplorable record of violence against African Americans, a record that stretches back centuries. The killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers stands within this sordid national tradition of racist violence. It is past time for Americans to confront our nation's past, using insights from history to inform our actions as we work to create a more just society.
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AHA Joins Call for Further CARES Funding for Higher Ed (June 2020)
Jun 02, 2020 -The AHA has joined 33 other societies in a letter to Congress requesting additional relief for higher education hit hard by challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter outlined the struggles that universities, especially HBCUs; community colleges; underfunded public institutions; and tuition-dependent nonprofit private colleges have faced in the wake of this crisis, and asked for greater investments in higher education to provide for the common good.
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AHA Member Wins Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize (May 2020)
May 27, 2020 -AHA member Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) has been awarded the Western Association of Women Historians' 2020 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize for her book Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2019). The Keller-Sierra Prize is given annually to the best monograph in the field of history published by a WAWH member.
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AHA Member Receives ACLS and Newberry Fellowships (May 2020)
May 27, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA member Christine Adams (St. Mary's Coll. of Maryland), who was recently awarded fellowships from the American Council on Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Newberry Library. Both of these fellowships support outstanding scholars conducting innovative and ground-breaking research in their fields.
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AHA Members Named among ACLS Fellows (May 2020)
May 27, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA members Christine M. Adams (St. Mary's Coll. of Maryland), Simon E. Balto (Univ. of Iowa), Susanna Elm (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia Univ.), Ryan Moran (Univ. of Utah), Douglas Northrop (Univ. of Michigan), Jennifer L. Palmer (Univ. of Georgia), Anne Ruderman (London School of Economics), Nicole Sackley (Univ. of Richmond), and Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt Univ.), who were all named as 2020 American Council of Learned Societies Fellows. These prestigious fellowships are awarded to scholars conducting influential research in the humanities and social sciences.
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AHA Member Publishes Articles on Post-pandemic Planning and #MeToo (May 2020)
May 15, 2020 -AHA member Rachel Wheeler (Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis) recently published an article in Inside Higher Ed on post-pandemic planning and a piece on the fallout of academic #MeToo in Women in Higher Ed.
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AHA Members Win ACLS Project Development Grants (May 2020)
May 14, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA members Jaclyn Sumner (Presbyterian Coll.) and Louie Dean Valencia-García (Texas State Univ.), who were among the 15 awardees selected for the American Council of Learned Societies' Project Development Grants program. These grants are awarded to university faculty whose proposed research projects have the potential to advance significantly their areas of study in the humanities.
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AHA Members Announced as Mellon/ACLS Fellows (May 2020)
May 14, 2020 -Four AHA members were recently named as 2020 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellows by the American Council of Learned Societies, including AHA Council member Shannon T. Bontrager (Georgia Highlands Coll., Cartersville). Congratulations to Shannon and to Emily Brooks (Graduate Center, CUNY), Karen R. Miller (La Guardia Comm. Coll., CUNY), and William A. Morgan (Lone Star Coll., Montgomery). These fellowships recognize humanities faculty who teach at two-year institutions and their indispensable contributions to scholarship, teaching, and their communities.
Advocacy
The AHA is part of the National Coalition for History, a consortium of over 50 organizations that advocates on federal, state and local legislative and regulatory issues. The NCH has compiled a list of advocacy issues most relevant to the study of history, as well as a list of resources to assist historians in their advocacy work.
Perspectives on Advocacy
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May 22, 2020 - Letter to the University System of Georgia Opposing Proposed Changes to the General Education Curriculum
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May 22, 2020 - Statement Regarding Historians and the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis
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May 11, 2020 - Advocacy Briefs
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Apr 14, 2020 - The AHA, Historians, and COVID-19
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Apr 6, 2020 - Advocacy Briefs
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