The AHA writes a letter to Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe about the Executive Order for Conflict-of-Interest Reporting, expressing concern regarding with alarm the inappropriate application of detailed financial disclosure requirements to individuals who control small budgets with little discretionary spending.
The American Historical Association issues a statement to the New York Board of Regents, encouraging them to consider a method by which both Global History and Geography and U.S. History and Government remain vital components of the curriculum and the Regents Exam.
The American Historical Association (AHA) supports the California FAIR Act and its attempts to provide an inquiry-based instructional model to elementary students that gives them access to a broad range of viewpoints in primary sources and encourages them to develop their own evidence-based arguments. The AHA urges those engaged in revising the curriculum to adhere to the letter and the spirit of the FAIR Act.
The American Historical Association Council issues a statement reaffirming the importance of the Council of Graduate Schools’ resolution regarding deadlines for accepting offers of admission to graduate programs, which state that students are under no obligation to respond to offers of admission and financial support prior to April 15, and that imposing earlier deadlines for the acceptance of such offers violates the Council’s and the Association’s principles.
The AHA issues a statement of concern, urging University of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise to reinstate the offer of a tenured position extended to Professor Steven Salaita in October 2013.
The American Historical Association issues a statement of support to the College Board for its efforts to encourage rigorous history education and ensure that the history classroom is a place of engaged learning and open dialog.
The American Historical Association strongly endorses the legislation introduced by US Senator Dick Durbin that would allow adjunct faculty members at institutions of higher education to qualify-- like other public servants--for federal student loan forgiveness.
The AHA issues a letter of opposition regarding the relocation of the National Archives for Black Women's History to the National Park Service’s Museum Resource Center in Landover, Maryland.
The American Historical Association expresses its dismay in a letter to David Ernesto Morales Cruz over the destruction of archives and theft of the computers of the Asociación Pro-Búsqueda on November 14, 2013.
The AHA supports the December 20, 2013, AAUP statement opposing the Kansas Board of Regents Social Media Policy under which faculty and other employees may be suspended, dismissed or terminated from employment for “improper use of social media.”
As groups dedicated to greater accountability and transparency in government, the AHA and affiliated societies wrote in support of the framework H.R. 1233, the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2013, which provides for the assertion of privilege by a former president, and the protections the bill provides for other federal records.
