AHA in the News
The staff and leadership of the American Historical Association are frequently quoted by the media.
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AHA Leadership Featured in Chicago Tribune (October 2020)
Oct 05, 2020 -AHA executive director James Grossman and former AHA Teaching Division vice president Elaine Carey (Purdue Univ. Northwest) were featured in a Chicago Tribune article regarding the September 17 “White House Conference on American History.” Grossman remarked that "history is not there to make people feel good-history is there to make people understand where we are and how we got here.” Carey articulated the challenges of defining “patriotic education” and noted, “history is complex and messy, and there isn't one story.” The AHA’s Statement on the Recent “White House Conference on American History” can be viewed here.
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AHA Executive Director Publishes Editorial in New York Daily News (October 2020)
Oct 01, 2020 -AHA executive director Jim Grossman recently published a New York Daily News editorial commenting on the recent “White House Conference on American History.” “Genuinely patriotic history education is not cheerleading or nationalist propaganda,” Grossman writes. “A meaningful commitment to the greatness of our nation requires honesty about the past, distant and recent.” The AHA's Statement on the Recent "White House Conference on American History" can be viewed here.
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AHA Participates in Civil War History “Call to Action” (September 2020)
Sep 30, 2020 -The AHA’s Statement on the “White House Conference for American History” was recently featured in a New York Times piece covering the important “Call to Action” event organized by the Journal of the Civil War Era and supported by the AHA. This event saw historians go to “a dozen Civil War-related sites across the country, from New York to Nashville to St. Louis,” where they “simultaneously gathered with signs highlighting distortions in existing plaques and memorials, or things that simply weren't being spoken of at all.”
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AHA Executive Director Quoted in Star Tribune (September 2020)
Sep 09, 2020 -AHA executive director Jim Grossman was recently quoted in a Star Tribune article, “George Floyd? Donald Trump? Hero statue nominations are in,” by Ellen Knickmeyer, Alan Suderman, and Jim Anderson (August 31, 2020).
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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 in the News Archive
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