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AHA Today: The New Blog on the Web Site
Have you seen AHA Today, the latest development on the ever-evolving AHA web site? AHA Today is a blog (to…
Have You Seen the CMH Web Pages Lately?
The AHA's Committee on Minority Historians (CMH) works to uphold—among other things—the principle that opportunity, fairness, and equity remain the…
What Do We Know about History PhDs?
Among the more frequently asked questions put to staff of the AHA is how many people apply to history PhD…
At Home in the World: The International Dimensions of the AHA
I write from Queen's College, Oxford University, where I am settling in for a year as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth…
A Conversation with Ida Blom
Editor's Note: The AHA's Honorary Foreign Membership, which was first conferred upon Leopold von Ranke in 1886, has since been…
Congress and “No Child Left Behind”: Will History Be Part of the Reauthorization?
Next year, Congress is expected to address the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the centerpiece of…
News Briefs, December 2006
Bomar Confirmed as Park Service Director The Senate has confirmed Mary Bomar as the new director of the National Park…
Preparation of Future History Teachers:The History Departments’ Role
What can college history departments do, with only minor curricular and institutional changes, to increase the understanding of history at…
Preparing Future Faculty Program a Fixture at FSU
In 1998, the history department at Florida State University (FSU) inaugurated a Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program. Eight years later,…
Practical Advice for Writing Your Dissertation, Book, or Article
You have a stack of research materials, a nebulous yet promising topic, and a looming deadline. Now, how do you…
Explore Historic Federal Courthouses
The Historic Federal Courthouses site, created by the Federal Judicial Center, is a compilation of hundreds of images and detailed…
Born to be a president
A hundred-and-fifty years ago today, an obscure Presbyterian minister named Joseph Wilson welcomed the arrival of his third child, Thomas…
Jobs and Interviews at the Annual Meeting
Search committees and job candidates are already gearing up for the annual meeting. If you are a candidate on the…
A New Voice for History in Washington
Leland White, the new Director of the National Coalition for History, just posted his first report over at History News…
December 2006 AHR now online
The December issue of the American Historical Review is now available on-line at the History Cooperative: The issue has articles…
Text Message Alerts and More for Annual Meeting Attendees
This year the AHA’s annual meeting message center will be available online as part of a new Registration Resource Center.…
A Wake Up Call for the Humanities
Even though some of the specifics differ from our discipline, the new Modern Language Association report on scholarship for tenure…
More Sunshine for the Smithsonian
In bureaucratic terms, a new report from the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) offers a fairly damning critique of the…
Three new volumes in the Foreign Relations of the United States Series Released
Carl Ashley was Web Content Editor for the AHA, and wrote this up on request. Anyone interested in the details…
Corporate U?
We tend to speak glibly about the intrusion of corporate culture and values on America’s colleges and universities, but we…
Business Meeting Resolutions
The following resolutions will be considered at the AHA’s Business Meeting on January 6th, 2007, 4:45 p.m., at the Annual…
Countdown to the Annual Meeting
Just like the holidays, the 121st Annual Meeting in Atlanta is fast approaching and so are some deadlines to prepare…
Discover the Digital History Reader
What Happened to the Native Population After 1492? How did Abolitionism Lead to the Struggle for Women’s Rights? Jackie Robinson,…
EPA Economies Put Documents on Endangered Species List
The following elaborates on the EPA closures mentioned in the Dec. 11th blog post. A cost-cutting move by the U.S.…
Clarifying the Clarifications
Michael Carome has once again “clarified” the federal Office of Human Research Protection’s position on oral history. According to a…
NCH Highlights
Below are some highlights from the latest issue of the National Coalition for History’s Washington Update: Battle to Keep EPA’s…
December Perspectives and the Annual Meeting Supplement – Now Online!
The December issue of Perspectives and the Annual Meeting Supplement are now available online. In her valedictory article as president,…
Pearl Harbor – A Look Back on the Web
Today, December 7th, in 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan. To remember and learn more about this hugely important…
American History Through Manuscripts
A recent article in the Washington Post noted that the website AmericasHistory.org bought 140 letters written by Dwight D. Eisenhower…
Tribute to Levine at the Annual Meeting
Roy Rosenzweig, former vice president for research at the AHA, reports that a special session to pay tribute to Larry…
Two New Titles from Gutenberg-e
The Gutenberg-e program recently published two new publications that demonstrate some of the unique new ways history scholarship can be…
Attention History Educators
The most recent edition of the NCH Washington Update, the National Coalition for History’s weekly newsletter, lists content of particular…
What Is a History Major Worth?
The answer, it turns out, may be a bit more than you think. Money.com recently reported that the history majors…