The Trouble with Film
A scene from A Passage to India, directed by David Lean. Shown on elephant from left: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee. Photo courtesy Columbia Pictures/Photofest.
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Putting Academic History in Context: A Survey of Humanities Departments
Before the present economic crisis, history departments were hiring more tenure-track faculty than they were losing by attrition, and they…
AHA Joins 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…
Masters and the Movies, Take 13: Philippa Levine on the Trouble with Film
Under the rubric “Masters at the Movies,” this column features a variety of articles about film crafted by some of…
The Trouble with Film
I’m wary of film. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy film. On the contrary, I use film in…
Anniversary Anecdotes and Contesting Cliches
Anniversaries are good, not only for gifts or speeches of remembrance, but also for reviving and revisiting historical memories. Thus,…
Crafting Histories: For Whom Does One Write?
The Art of History is a new series of articles by senior scholars who are willing to share their thoughts…
Cuts Proposed for History-Related Programs in Federal Budget for Fiscal 2011
President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget request to Congress has cast a pall of uncertainty on many history-related programs. The…
Reaching a Broader Audience
As historians, most of the writing we do is for each other. We write for specialists in our field, and…
Teaching History Sixties Style at Temple University
Students Use Teach-ins to Make Sense of the Post 9/11 World In September 2002 I began teaching at Temple University…
Conference on Faith and History
The Christian concern for historical authenticity, although having its ups and downs, has long been a boon to the discipline…
Participants Selected for the Summer 2010 Seminar on Decolonization
Fifteen scholars—listed below—have been selected, after a rigorous screening of more than 75 excellent applications that were received, to participate…
J. Carroll Moody (1934-2009)
J. Carroll Moody, a student of American labor history, died on August 18, 2009, after a long illness. He was…
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum was established in 1999, houses artifacts and exhibits in its building in California, and “seeks to…
Government Comics Collection of UNL
The University of Nebraska Lincoln online libraries digital collections provide access (though some sections are restricted) to impressive collections of…
Raid on Deerfield
On February 29, 1704, hundreds of French and Native allies raided the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, capturing men, women,…
Memorial Hall Museum Online
The Memorial Hall Museum captures the history of Massachusetts through numerous interactive activities that encourage users to engage with artifacts,…
Wet with Blood
On April 14, 1865, just five days after the close of the Civil War, Elizabeth Keckly, a former slave and…
Bancroft Prize Winners Announced
Columbia University announced the 2010 winners of the prestigious Bancroft Prize on March 17. The three historians named were Linda…
New AHA Executive Director
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. James Grossman, currently Vice President for Research and Education at…
Support National History Day
The following text is an alert from the National Coalition for History. It is crossposted on the NCH web site.…
The HerStory Scrapbook
This year marks the 23rd anniversary of National Women’s History Month and the 90th anniversary of the 19th amendment, granting…
HistoriansTV
At the 124th Annual Meeting this past January, the AHA once again partnered with WebsEdge of London, U.K. to produce…
Name That Decade: Results
Late last year we asked AHA members and the public to name the decade, “offer[ing] their suggestions…for a catchy phrase…
Council Approves Establishment of Interest Groups within the AHA
Members of the American Historical Association will now be able to create interest groups (organized bodies of history specialists), under…
Perspectives on History
In the March issue of Perspectives on History hear from AHA President Barbara D. Metcalf as she considers views of…
New Salary Report Shows Little Growth in History
Average faculty salaries in history were essentially unchanged from the previous year, as average salaries for regular full-time faculty at…
Online Oral History Projects, Part IV
We have recently been rounding up online oral history projects on AHA Today, rediscovering projects we’ve posted about before as…
New Survey of Humanities Departments Puts History in Context
Before the present economic crisis, history departments were hiring more tenure-track faculty than they were losing by attrition, and they…
Name that Decade: Voting
On November 29th of last year we asked AHA members and the public to name the decade, “offer[ing] their suggestions…for…
Member News Wanted
The Members column, which is published in Perspectives on History as space permits, is designed to recognize and honor the…