Filling Seats
Enrollments is one of the biggest challenges facing history departments, and higher education institutions at large, across the United States. How can departments reverse the downward trend over the last decade? What strategies will attract students to history courses? In this month’s issue, we reveal the results of the 2019 history enrollments survey and discuss the myriad ways that departments are working to bolster course enrollments.
Photo: Library of Congress/Thomas J. O’Halloran. Image Cropped.
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“A Great Tradition That Was Not Ours”
Mo Moulton (Univ. of Birmingham) picked up Dorothy L. Sayers’s mystery novel Gaudy Night “on a whim,” they told Perspectives.…
Townhouse Notes
January 2020 marks a fresh start. It is a new year and a new decade. And at the AHA, it…
Cultivating Community
I have been thinking recently about the concept and reality of community, both within the AHA as an organization and…
Daniel H. Calhoun (1927–2019)
Daniel H. Calhoun, professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis, passed away on March 23, 2019, at the age…
Gabriel Jackson (1921–2019)
Gabriel Jackson, one of the most prominent Hispanists and Hispanophiles in the United States, died on November 3, 2019, at…
On the “Statement from the AHA on Domestic Terrorism, Bigotry, and History”
To the Editor: I was glad that the AHA issued a statement on “Domestic Terrorism, Bigotry, and History” (September 2019). It…
AHA Member Spotlight: Marc S. Rodriguez
Marc S. Rodriguez is a professor and journal editor at Portland State University. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and has…
Beyond Content
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a two-part column. The first installment can be found here. Detailing the…
How to Improve Your HGSA
History Graduate Student Associations (HGSAs) are a common feature in many history departments at American universities. Run by graduate students…
AHA Member Spotlight: Mattie Harper DeCarlo
Mattie Harper DeCarlo is a senior historian at the Minnesota Historical Society. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and has…