On November 18, 2016, the American Historical Association issued a statement in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, reaffirming its "commitment to mutual respect, reasoned discourse, and appreciation for humanity in its full variety."
On November 17, 2016, the AHA Council approved a letter to US Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, requesting a timely recommendation to the White House regarding a National Monument in Beaufort, South Carolina, in recognition of Reconstruction. The proposed monument would be the first in the National Park Service to expressly represent the history of emancipation and Reconstruction.
On November 14, 2016, AHA president Pat Manning sent a letter to Polish President Andrzej Duda expressing concern over the government's treatment and potential prosecution of Jan T. Gross, professor of history at Princeton University. The celebrated historian of the holocaust is facing a libel investigation from Polish authorities for publishing historical accounts of Poles killing Jews during World War II. The potential actions, according to Manning, represent "a serious threat to academic freedom, freedom of speech, and impartial historical scholarship" in Poland.
The American Historical Association expresses deep concern about the content of a recent draft of a textbook that has been submitted for approval for Texas’s Mexican American Studies course.
The American Historical Association wishes to register its concern about the possible merging of the planned Museum of the Second World War with a newly proposed museum focusing solely on Poland's military struggle in 1939.
AHA President Patrick Manning writes, on the behalf of the AHA, to Madame Fleur Pellerin of Ministre de la culture et de la communication in Paris to express the Association’s concern about the possible closing of the Musée des Tissus of the city of Lyon.
AHA President Patrick Manning writes, on the bahalf of the Association, to expresses alarm and deep concern regarding reports of punitive measures and criminal investigations taken against Turkish academics who signed a petition addressing Turkish government policies in southeastern Turkey.
The AHA has signed on to a memo from the Coalition for International Education urging the US Department of Education to protect Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships.
