The AHA’s mission to promote the critical role of historical thinking in public life was front and center as executive director Sarah Weicksel spoke to the Huffington Post about how complete, accurate Black history is essential to understanding the United States and making informed decisions about its future.
In a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s censorship of history in National Parks, Judge Angel Kelley of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts cited the AHA’s 2021 survey, History, the Past, and Public Culture, in a ruling that ordered the Park Service to restore exhibits that it has dismantled or altered.
On an episode of the From College to College podcast, Amy Powers (Waubonsee Community Coll.) discussed the AHA’s History Gateways project as part of a conversation about designing introductory history courses to be relevant to all students.