AHA in the News
The staff and leadership of the American Historical Association are frequently quoted by the media.
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AHA Executive Director Interviewed in The Tennessean (July 2020)
Jul 30, 2020 -AHA executive director Jim Grossman was interviewed in The Tennessean's web segment on “The Confederate Reckoning: Why monuments and symbols are being removed,” by Mike Fant (July 30, 2020).
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AHA Executive Director Quoted in Washington Post (July 2020)
Jul 20, 2020 -AHA executive director Jim Grossman was quoted in three Washington Post articles in July 2020.
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AHA Executive Director Quoted on Removal of Monuments and Statues (July 2020)
Jul 14, 2020 -AHA executive director Jim Grossman was quoted in a number of recent media articles on the debate over removing Confederate monuments and statues of Christopher Columbus. The articles include:
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AHA Executive Director Appeared on Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service's Web Series (July 2020)
Jul 13, 2020 -AHA executive director Jim Grossman appeared in the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service's web series “Two Bald Guys” on the episode discussing “Rethinking Statues and the Meaning of American History.”
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AHA Executive Director Quoted on Proposed National Garden Monument (July 2020)
Jul 06, 2020 -AHA executive director Jim Grossman was quoted in several recent articles on President Trump's proposal to create a National Garden Monument.
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AHA Executive Director Quoted in TIME (June 2020)
Jun 15, 2020 -AHA executive director Jim Grossman was quoted in TIME magazine's "Confederate Statues Are Being Removed Amid Protests Over George Floyd's Death. Here's What to Know." Grossman contextualized the call for Confederate monuments to be removed from public spaces and discussed the history of such monuments as symbols of white supremacy.
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AHA Past President John McNeill Discusses Future of Historical Research (May 2020)
May 29, 2020 -Former AHA president John R. McNeill (Georgetown Univ.) was recently interviewed by the University of Manchester. In this interview, he discussed the future of the historical field and called for new interdisciplinary collaborations between historians and scientists.
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AHA Council Members Discuss History Education in the Washington Post
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AHA Past President Tyler Stovall Interviewed on Anniversary of WWI Armistice
Nov 15, 2018 -On November 9, 2018, Tyler Stovall, AHA past president and professor of history and dean of humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, offered comments on the lessons and legacy of World War I during a live interview with i24News. Stovall drew parallels between the divisive nationalist fervor in Europe today and that of 100 years ago and discussed the war's lasting impact in the Middle East. The interview, available for download, comprised part of the global 24-hour television news network's coverage marking the centennial anniversary of the WWI Armistice.
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AHA Staff Quoted in Washington Post Article on Digital History
May 14, 2018 -Seth Denbo, AHA director of scholarly communication and digital initiatives, was quoted in the Retropolis blog of the Washington Post concerning digital reconstructions of the past. Denbo stated that like historical video games such as Assassin's Creed, digital projects give audiences "an idea of what these historical spaces and experiences were like for people in the past." The article also features several digital history projects, from photography colorization to an interactive topographical map of the D-Day invasion at Normandy. "It feels a little like we've been given the ability to time travel," Denbo said.
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AHA in the News Archive
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