Researching Violence
In “True Crime Meets History,” R.E. Fulton observes that “the people at the heart of histories of violence remain hard to conjure.” Conjuring the stories and humanity of victims of violence is the kind of difficult, emotional labor that Ruth Lawlor describes in “Working with Death.” Read together, Fulton’s and Lawlor’s articles grapple with important questions about privacy, dignity, and the nature of understanding that are applicable to historians working in many fields.
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Pressing Pause
Overlooked in many of the conversations about COVID-19 and higher education has been graduate education. Like their undergraduate counterparts, graduate…
Advocacy Briefs
The AHA is committed to defending practices that allow historians to conduct their research freely and to access records in…
Townhouse Notes
Early in the pandemic, I read a tweet so true it stopped me mid-doomscroll: STEM fields might end the pandemic,…
One for the History Books
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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…
Ellis W. Hawley (1929–2020)
Ellis Hawley, a much-admired historian of the 20th-century United States, died on September 15, 2020. He was a beloved faculty…
Virtual AHA’s January Session
Virtual AHA announces the January Session, a cluster of high-profile presentations, plenary sessions, and networking events. Coinciding with the dates…
Remote Reflections
I was excited to begin a yearlong sabbatical in the fall of 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic, though, meant that rather…
Welcome to the New Fireside Chat
Ready to pivot to video on the book trail? It’s time to shelve the 10-slide PowerPoint, boost your WiFi, and…
Vikings, Crusaders, Confederates
A little over two years ago, I wrote for Perspectives about the 2017 white supremacist riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, the…
AHA Member Spotlight: Keisha A. Brown
Keisha A. Brown is an assistant professor at Tennessee State University. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and has been a…
Why is Charles Curtis’s Legacy So Complicated?
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Please Stop Calling Things Archives
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AHA Member Spotlight: R. Isabela Morales
R. Isabela Morales is a manager of exhibition development at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. She lives in Newark, New…