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  • AHA Director of Research and Publications Quoted in New York Times Memorial Day Article (June 2023)

    Jun 05, 2023 - 

    AHA director of research and publications Sarah Weicksel was quoted in a New York Times article by Livia Albeck-Ripka on the history of Memorial Day. Weicksel spoke about the establishment of Memorial Day on the last Monday of May as part of a larger effort to create three-day weekends, explaining, “They wanted it to be an opportunity for people to be able to gather.”

  • AHA Endorses Senate Resolution Recognizing Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (June 2023)

    Jun 05, 2023 - 

    The AHA has endorsed a US Senate resolution “recognizing the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and honoring the lives and legacies of the nearly 300 Black individuals who were killed and the nearly 9,000 Black individuals who were left homeless and penniless as a result.” Executive director Jim Grossman said about the resolution, “Everything has a history, including white supremacy and the many forms of violence, coercion, and cultural practices that have legitimated and enforced it. What happened in Tulsa was extreme, but not unusual. It is part of our nation's heritage. We must acknowledge that heritage, learn from it, and do whatever each of us can to ensure that it is just that—heritage, rather than continuing practice.”

  • NARA Provides Update on Status of Research Rooms (June 2023)

    Jun 05, 2023 - 

    In response to a request from the AHA and other organizations, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has provided an update on the status of their research rooms, all of which are open to the public and welcome researchers. Learn how to arrange your research visit in advance. Download the update as a PDF.

  • AHA President-Elect and Members Awarded Long-Term Huntington Fellowships (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA president-elect Thavolia Glymph (Duke Univ.) and members Hilary Buxton (Kenyon Coll.), Gordon H. Chang (Stanford Univ.), Peter C. Mancall (Univ. of Southern California), Bernadette J. Pérez (Univ. of California, Berkeley), and Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard Univ.), who were awarded long-term fellowships by The Huntington as part of the 2023–24 fellow class.

  • AHA Members Named 2023 Newcombe Fellows (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA members Kelsey Elizabeth Henry (Yale Univ.), Erica Lally (Georgetown Univ.), Aparajita Majumdar (Cornell Univ.), and Daniela Traldi (Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York), who were named Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2023 by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. The Newcombe Fellowship is “the largest and most prestigious award for PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values in interesting, original, or significant ways.”

  • AHA Member Awarded 2022 New Deal Book Award (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA member Victoria W. Wolcott (Univ. of Buffalo), who was recently awarded the Living New Deal’s 2022 New Deal Book Award for her book Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement, as well as to AHA members Kenneth J. Bindas (Kent State Univ.), Matthew F. Delmont (Dartmouth Coll.), and Gene Zubovich (Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York), who were nominated for the award. Established in 2021, the New Deal Book Award is awarded annually “to recognize and encourage nonfiction works about the New Deal era.”

  • AHA Member Awarded 2022 New Deal Book Award (May 2023)AHA Member Named 2023 Berlin Prize Fellow (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA member Mariana P. Candido (Emory Univ.), who has been named one of the 2023 Berlin Prize Fellows by the American Academy in Berlin. The Berlin Prizes are “awarded annually to US-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition.”

  • AHA Members Awarded 2023 ACLS Project Development Grants (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA members Adam Lee Cilli (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Greensburg), Larissa Kopytoff (Univ. of South Florida, St. Petersburg), Judith Mansilla (Florida International Univ.), and Diana M. Moore (John Jay Coll., City Univ. of New York), who were selected as recipients of 2023 ACLS Project Development Grants. These grants “are designed to support scholars in teaching-intensive roles whose research agendas can make important advancements in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.”

  • AHA Member Awarded 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA member Beverly Gage (Yale Univ.), who was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for her book, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, as well as to historian Jefferson Cowie (Vanderbilt Univ.), who was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power.

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