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2009 AHA Election Results
Laura Ackerman Smoller (Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock), chair of the Nominating Committee, announces the following results of the 2009 balloting for officers and committee members of the American Historical Association.
A New Found Religion? The Field Surges among AHA Members
Specialists in religious history recently surpassed all other topical categories in our annual look at AHA members, raising interesting questions…
What’s in the December 2009 AHR?
Members of the AHA should shortly be receiving their copies of the December 2009 issue of the American Historical Review,…
Teaching Scholarship
Noralee Frankel, AHA’s assistant director for women, minorities, and teaching, writes: On the suggestion of the AHA’s Graduate and Early…
The Trouble with History
Billy Collins, a former poet laureate of the United States, begins one of his poems with this wonderfully provocative line:…
Appropriations 2010: What’s in It for Us?
On October 30, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies fiscal year 2010 appropriations bill…
Debating the Past: Academic and Popular Histories in India
In a casual conversation with a woman I had been introduced to at a social gathering on a recent trip…
Recruiting Students of Color at Hartwick College
Noralee Frankel, AHA’s assistant director for women, minorities, and teaching, writes: For years, the AHA’s Committee on Minority Historians has…
Recruiting Minority Graduate Students: The UNC Model
Because of the small number of minority applicants to our graduate program, the history department at the University of North…
Clicking for Clio: Using Technology to Teach Historical Thinking
From the point of view of most historians, multiple-choice questions are at best a necessary evil—perhaps useful for quizzes and…
Navigating the Graduate Admissions Process
For undergraduates bitten by the history bug, pursuing a graduate degree in history seems the next logical step. The application…
The Social Shape of the AHA, 1884-1945
Editor’s Note: As the AHA prepares to enter its 126th year, we conclude the special series of 125th anniversary Timelines…
Who’s on First? The Braves or the Brewers?
To the Editor: For the In Memoriam section of the October Perspectives on History, Leon Litwack has written an eloquent…
What Is “World History”?
To the Editor: I found Robert Bain and Lauren McArthur Harris’s article on the preparation of world history teachers (“A…
Richard H. Zeitlin (1945-2008)
Longtime director of Wisconsin Veterans Museum Richard H. Zeitlin, historian and director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum for more than…
Sidney Fine (1920-2009)
Biographer of New Deal liberal Frank Murphy The line would start to form sometime around 12:30 every Wednesday afternoon during…
Looking Forward to the 124th Annual Meeting in San Diego
The AHA’s124th Annual Meeting, taking place this January 7-10th in San Diego, is just over a week away. Have you…
Members’ Books Received—December 2009
As a service to AHA members, we are listing books by members received in the headquarters office in recent months.These…
Supplement to the 124th Annual Meeting – Now Online!
The Supplement to the 124th Annual Meeting is now online, and print copies will be available at the annual meeting.…
Perspectives on History – December 2009
In this final issue of the year, hear from AHA President Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, consider issues in the history profession,…
Job Center Preview
Now that you know how the Job Center works, you may want to know which institutions are going to be…
Martha Washington: A Life
The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) and George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens recently teamed up to…
Video: The AHA Job Center How-To Guide
Attention job seekers who are about to use the AHA’s Job Center! Just in time for its 124th Annual Meeting in…
Submitting Proposals for the 2011 AHA Annual Meeting
Submitting ProposalsThe 125th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 6–9, 2011, in Boston. The Program…
Directory of History Journals – Updated
The AHA recently updated the Directory of History Journals! The Directory has been available for a little over two years…
Founders Early Access
One of the best ways to learn about democracy is to study documents from America’s Founding Fathers. Last year, Congress…
History Syllabus Wiki: A Query
We need your feedback! The American Historical Association is considering the possibility of creating a “History Syllabus Wiki.” This new…
The 2010 Annual Meeting – Updates, Highlights, and Tweets
The AHA’s 2010 Annual Meeting in San Diego is fast approaching. Have you registered? Are you ready to hit some…
Perspectives on History – November 2009
The AHA’s 124th Annual Meeting draws ever nearer, and the November issue of Perspectives on History takes a closer look…