Biometrics and Belonging
Our cover story, Jose Ragas's "Beyond Big Brother," brings to light emerging research on theuse of identity documents to assert belonging. Although ID cards originated in thesciences of surveillance inthe 19th century, their proliferation led to a variety of meanings for individuals. Ragas takes conventional analyses of biometric technologies and stands them on their ear. Image: Vhils (Alexandre Farto), Dissection/Via Pedro Ribeiro Simões/Flickr/CC BY 2.0.
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From the AHA
ORCID Blooms: How Unique Identification Numbers Can Aid Research and Discovery
In the final decade of the second millennium, I embarked on my first major research explorations. Readers who recall those…
Preserving Disability Heritage: Gallaudet Inaugurates New Center for Deaf Documentary Studies
In the 1960s, NASA conducted an experiment that involved housing a group of men in a room built on top…
Beyond “Roads Scholars”
The AHA has wrestled with the issue of non-tenure-track faculty for over 20 years, producing several reports, collaborating with other…
Townhouse Notes
In “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism” (1967), E. P. Thompson argued that capital came to dictate what work got done…
UNESCO and Scholarly Communication
The United Nations, now 70 years old, stands as a striking element of the postwar world. Though always problematic, it…
Fighting to Save an Endangered Revolutionary War Battlefield
A common misconception about the National Coalition for History is that almost all of what we do, and care about,…
Historians on the Hill
As historians, we recognize that historical perspectives can offer us more complex and more nuanced understandings of the world we…
Meeting the Challenges of Influencing Policy
Everything has a history. More than a catchy phrase, that statement underlies the National History Center’s Congressional Briefings program: understanding…
Elizabeth Eisenstein
Historian of the book and early modern Europe; AHA member since 1949 Elizabeth (Betty) Eisenstein, 92, died at her home…
AHA Member Spotlight: M. M. McAllen
AHA members are involved in all fields of history, with wide-ranging specializations, interests, and areas of employment. To recognize our…
AHA Helping Protect FLAS for Graduate Students
The AHA has signed on to a memo from the Coalition for International Education urging the US Department of Education…
How About Some Optimism?
In February I had the privilege of visiting a public university in the Midwest and meeting with students from its…
Crowdsourcing Historical and Archival Information with NARA’s History Hub
How can I get information about my father’s service in World War II? Where can I find records about my…
Easter Rising 1916: One Hundred Years On
On Easter Monday morning, April 24, 1916, about 1,600 Irish republicans seized control of a number of buildings in Dublin.…
AHA Member Spotlight: Stephen Robertson
AHA members are involved in all fields of history, with wide-ranging specializations, interests, and areas of employment. To recognize our…
Collaboration
This post marks the second in a series on what we’ve come to call the Career Diversity Five Skills—five things…
An Americanist in Meknès
At its finest the news media connects us with human stories and events. As historians, it is these records of…
Inside Ben Franklin’s World: An Interview with Podcaster Liz Covart
In February, Perspectives on History ran a story exploring the current boom in history podcasts, and found that podcasts allow…
AHA Member Spotlight: Martha Chaiklin
AHA members are involved in all fields of history, with wide-ranging specializations, interests, and areas of employment. To recognize our…
Metric Matters: Presenting the April Issue of Perspectives on History
The April issue of Perspectives on History arrives near the end of the academic year, when many historians are neck-deep…
Is Today’s Russia a Relic of the Past?
To what extent are Vladimir Putin and today’s Russia recapitulating the tsarist and Soviet past? As Russia roared back into…
Class Struggle or Sectionalism?
It’s tax time again in the United States. The AHA will not be advising you about home offices or the…
AHA Member Spotlight: Catherine Cabiness-Atkinson
AHA members are involved in all fields of history, with wide-ranging specializations, interests, and areas of employment. To recognize our…
Teaching Environmental History in US and World History Survey Courses
Thermohaline circulation, Aedes aegypti, sodium nitrate, and CO2 uptake are all terms that four years ago I would not have…
Career Diversity Five Skills: Intellectual Self-Confidence; Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Job
This post marks the first in a series on what we’ve come to call the Career Diversity Five Skills—five things…
Is the European Refugee Crisis Unprecedented? Symposium at the German Historical Institute Provides Historical Perspective
A few weeks ago the European Union (EU) signed a controversial agreement with Turkey to staunch the flow of Syrian…
EXCLUSIVE: AHA Launches Social Networking App for Historians!
The American Historical Association is proud to announce the debut of TWEEDER. Available exclusively to AHA members, TWEEDER is a…