Teaching Together
This issue of Perspectives on History includes three Feature articles about collaboration in teaching. Although each focuses on different aspects of undergraduate education, all three emphasize how collaboration—with students, fellow historians, or faculty in other disciplines—improves the classroom experience for everyone. In “Turning Inquiry into Action,” Caleb Wood Richardson (Univ. of New Mexico) explains how communities of practice (CoPs) brought instructors across the university together to get the gears turning. CoPs supported Richardson and other faculty as they worked on evaluating and improving their teaching. These articles, read together, may prompt historians to think about how they can bring collaboration into their classrooms, public history, and other learning spaces.
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Overview and Updates
Virtual AHA is a series of online opportunities to bring together communities of historians, build professional relationships, discuss scholarship, and…
Stephen F. Cohen (1938–2020)
Stephen F. Cohen, called “the most controversial Russia expert in America” in a 2017 Chronicle of Higher Education profile, died on…
Miriam E. Jiménez Román (1951–2020)
Miriam Esther Jiménez Román, professor, editor, archivist, curator, social theorist, author, and activist, died of cancer at age 69 on…
Peter Paret (1924–2020)
On September 11, 2020, Peter Paret died peacefully at his home in Salt Lake City at the age of 96.…
On “Our Colleagues”
To the Editor: Mary Lindemann’s October column captured the conflicted reality of working as an adjunct in the academy. Yes,…
On “A New View of Event History”
To the Editor: I enjoyed Robert Darnton’s article proposing a “new” view of event history, which is indeed an important…
Remote Reflections
The day we landed in Rome I posed my family and our jumbled pile of luggage in front of our…
Narratives and Counternarratives
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a two-part column. The first installment can be found here. I sat in…
AHA Member Spotlight: Stephanie Fajardo
Stephanie Fajardo is a postdoctoral fellow at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan. She lives in Ann…
Clerks Wearing Masks
When a dozen Virginia Tech students began the course Topics in the History of Data in Social Context in January…
AHA Member Spotlight: Emil Kerenji
Emil Kerenji is an applied research scholar at Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States…
Perspectives on 2020
Perspectives on History cultivates the community of historians and promotes our work. In 2020, a year defined by “pivoting to…