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Miniconference Planned for 2011 on Religion, Peace, and Violence
Council Working Group Invites Proposals and Suggestions Inspired by the success and impact of the miniconference on same-sex marriage held…
NHA Invites Participation in the National Humanities Advocacy Day
The National Humanities Alliance, a coalition of more than 100 organizations involved in the humanities, invites AHA members and everyone…
What’s in the February 2010 AHR?
The February 2010 issue of theAmerican Historical Review should soon be in members’ mailboxes and also online from the University…
Wm. Roger Louis to Hold Kluge Center’s Chair for Countries and Cultures of the North
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has appointed Wm. Roger Louis, former AHA president and distinguished historian from the University…
How Writing Leads to Thinking
The Art of History is a new series of articles by senior scholars who are willing to share their thoughts…
Historians and Chemical Engineers
I have recently had e-mail correspondence with an Indian chemical engineer who wrote me because of a comment I had…
Obama Executive Order Issued to Expedite Declassification
On December 29, President Obama issued a new executive order (EO 13526) that would dramatically change the way the executive…
News Briefs, February 2010
Fiscal Year 2010 Budgets Finalized for Key Historical Programs The National Archives & Records Administration’s (NARA) budget increased by $10…
Forty Years On: Looking Back at the 1969 Annual Meeting
Writing in 1970, then AHA president R. R. Palmer stated that the Association is “in a time of crisis,” which…
How to Apply for a Position at a Small College
Many graduate students seem surprised when a significant percentage of the available jobs are not at research universities but at…
Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On: Working on an Exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Research and writing can be a solitary business. And after all the work is done and the article or book…
Paul Kennedy Dissects the Sinews of Power at NHC-CFR Conversation in New York
In the fifth of a series of conversations jointly sponsored by the National History Center and the Council for Foreign…
Taking the Road Less Travelled
Editor's Note: Perspectives on Historywelcomes letters to the editor on issues discussed in its pages or which are relevant to…
Research and High School Students
Editor's Note: Perspectives on History welcomes letters to the editor on issues discussed in its pages or which are relevant…
Carol A. Breckenridge (1942–2009)
Founder ofPublic Culture journal A historian who began her career with colonial South India and went on to become one…
History of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine’sHistory of Medicine Division “collects, preserves, interprets, and presents materials documenting the history of medicine, biomedical…
Perspectives on History – February 2010
AHA President Barbara D. Metcalf begins the February 2010 issue of Perspectives on History with a story about a recent…
Online Oral History Projects, Part III
We have recently been rounding up online oral history projects on AHA Today, rediscovering projects we’ve posted about before as…
An American Album, 1857 – Presidential Address Now Online
Former AHA President Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s presidential address, An American Album, 1857, isnow available online in the February 2010 issue…
Most Snowfall since 1899 Shuts Washington and the AHA Down
Last week’s winter weather conditions in Washington shut down the government for a record four days in a row. Because…
AHA Office Closed Due to Inclement Weather
The AHA headquarters office will be closed again tomorrow, Wednesday, February 10, as heavy snows have shut down Washington area…
Online Oral History Projects, Part II
Note: AHA Today has featured oral history in numerous past blog posts. This post along with the previous February 3rd…
AHA Joins Coalition on the Academic Workforce Call for Fair and Equitable Treatment of All Faculty
At its January meeting, the AHA Council endorsed a new study from the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) that…
Online Oral History Projects
Note: AHA Today has featured oral history in numerous past blog posts. This post along with an upcoming post roundup…
Heroic AHA Member Helps to Save Lives in Haiti
Dwelling as they usually do in dark and dusty archives or hallowed halls of academe, historians are not often linked…
The Special Collections of the National Agricultural Library
The Special Collections of the USDA’ National Agricultural Library (NAL) offer agricultural historians, and those with similar interests, access to…