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Please Stop Calling Things Archives: An Archivist’s Plea
Perspectives Daily
B. M. Watson | Jan 22, 2021
What do historians mean when they say "archive"? One archivist makes the case for a more precise use of the word.
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Reconciling Professional Rifts: Can Historians and Archivists Understand One Another Better?
Viewpoints
Beth DeBold | Jan 21, 2021
Historians are rightly quick to note the transferability of a professional historian's skill set, but as with all things, there are limits.
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The 2021 AHA Jobs Report: 2019–20 Data Show Relative Stability in the Year before COVID
Features
Dylan Ruediger | Jan 20, 2021
The higher education faculty job market for historians grew a modest 0.9 percent in 2019–20, fueled by a 7 percent rise in tenure-track positions.
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Why is Charles Curtis’s Legacy So Complicated? The United States’ First Indigenous Vice President in Context
Perspectives Daily
Kiara M. Vigil | Jan 19, 2021
Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Nation and the first person of color to serve as vice president, is best known for authoring a federal law that extended the federal government's intervention into the lives of Native people.
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AHA Member Spotlight: Keisha A. Brown
Matthew Keough | Jan 15, 2021
Keisha A. Brown is an assistant professor at Tennessee State University. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and has been a member since 2014.
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The Story Doesn’t Fit in a Grid
Scott Fralin and Jessica Taylor | Jan 14, 2021
"Pivoting to digital" during COVID-19 was one of the most fraught and trying experiences for the organizers of The Land Speaks; it was also a small source of comfort because this was one thing that was not canceled.
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Why Study You-Know-What?
Jacqueline Jones | Jan 13, 2021
Historians have our own reasons for studying the past but must often explain the value of historical thinking to people not in the discipline.
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Vikings, Crusaders, Confederates
Matthew Gabriele | Jan 12, 2021
Why was there so much medieval imagery at the assault on the US Capitol? Historian Matthew Gabriele explains the Far Right embrace of the Vikings and Crusaders.
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A Starting Point
Kevin Boyle and James Grossman | Jan 11, 2021
The braided relationship between history and civics will make January 6, 2021, a central concern in classrooms and other educational venues across the country. What stories might we tell to show that even unprecedented events have a history?