It’s About Time
Steampunk is easy to spot but hard to define, as Scott P. Marler writes in this month’s cover story. Fantastical, sometimes twisted Victorian visions of the future as imagined in the present aren’t a nostalgia trip—today’s steampunks actively subvert 19th-century conventions of gender and race, and 21st-century technofuturism at the same time.
Illustration: Kathryn M. Weaver
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A Resilient Woman
My mother, Mary Elizabeth Lunny Norton, died this past August, about a month before her 105th birthday. For years in…
Jesse Lemisch (1936–2018)
Jesse Lemisch died in New York City on August 25, 2018. Trained at Yale University as a historian of the…
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AHA Member Spotlight: Ofosuwa M. Abiola
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Name that Cocktail! 2019
For the seventh year in a row, AHA annual meeting hotels will be offering signature mixed drinks at their bars.…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70
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AHA Member Spotlight: Frank Valadez
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Voting Now Open for 2019 Name that Cocktail! Contest
Thank you to everyone who contributed a suggestion to the 2019 Name that Cocktail! contest. We’ve aggregated our favorites and…
AHA Member Spotlight: Laurie Arnold
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Meet Your AHA19 Cocktail Contest Winners
AHA staff is thrilled to announce the winning names of this year’s Name that Cocktail! contest. Each year, historians submit…
The History BA, #MeToo, Archives, and More
This year saw many changes at Perspectives on History: our website received a top-to-bottom redesign, and we moved to an…
AHA Member Spotlight: Thomas A. Foster
Thomas A. Foster is a professor of history and associate dean for faculty affairs in the College of Arts and…