Deportation Nation
After Adam Goodman (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) finished his bachelor’s degree, he spent five years guiding students from underrepresented…
Advocacy Briefs
The American Historical Association sent several letters to both the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the…
Townhouse Notes
Historians who have read E. P. Thompson’s “Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism” (Past & Present, 1967) in graduate school remember…
Responsibility and Civility
The American Historical Association and organizations like it—whether workplaces, departments, divisions, or colleges—are held together by interlocking and overlapping webs…
Simeon J. Crowther (1943–2019)
Courtesy Sara Waggener Smith Simeon J. Crowther, a leader in the effort to expand the role of teaching in the…
A. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019)
Courtesy Louis Fabian Bachrach A. Hunter Dupree, an AHA member since 1946, died peacefully at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on…
Albert N. Hamscher III (1946–2019)
Courtesy Taylor Irby/The Manhattan Mercury Albert N. Hamscher III, Kenneth S. Davis Professor of History at Kansas State University and…
John Ellis van Courtland Moon (1929–2019)
Courtesy Margaret Moon Hames John Ellis van Courtland Moon, a distinguished historian and champion of academic freedom, died on May…
Brian Tierney (1922–2019)
Brian Tierney, AHA member since 1952, was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force in…
A Tribute to Allison Miller
To the Editor: Surely I was not the only historian taken aback to have learned of Allison Miller’s departure from…
Disciplining History
To the Editor: As a graduate student in history, I have always felt that the archive, despite its centrality to…
Want to Write for the AHA?
A key skill for historians, whether they work in academia, public history, government, publishing, or beyond, is the ability to…
AHA Member Spotlight: Maria Cecilia Ulrickson
Maria Cecilia Ulrickson is an assistant professor at the School of Theology and Religious Studies at Catholic University of America.…
AHA Member Spotlight: Ernesto Capello
Ernesto Capello is a professor of Latin American history at Macalester College. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and has…