The AHA Jobs Report
This year’s AHA Jobs Report comes as what we know about “the market” is evolving. Most readers will want to know how many tenure-track assistant professorships were posted last year, but the increasing number of nonacademic jobs for history PhDs has prompted the AHA to ask new questions: What is a job and where do historians find them? We can no longer look only in the light; we have to seek out what’s in the shadows.
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Featured Articles
Global Dissent
In May 1968, French students and workers, protesting consumerism, capitalism, and US involvement in Vietnam, engaged in the largest general…
“For the Future”: Doing Indigenous History after Standing Rock
In August 2016, Amber Annis, member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and a doctoral candidate in American studies at…
Search History: Making Research Transparent in the Digital Age
At the 2018 AHA annual meeting, researchers, documentary editors, librarians, archivists, and educators gathered at a series of panels, “Primary…
Townhouse Notes: How Much Longer for the Graph of Doom?
Each year a double-line graph comparing the number of new history PhDs with advertised academic jobs appears in Perspectives‘ Jobs Report. Is it time to “retire” this graph?
When the AHA Takes a Public Stance
During my year as president-elect, I became involved in the AHA’s taking public positions three times. At my first meeting…
Suzanne Miers Oliver (1922–2016)
Historian of Global Slavery Suzanne Miers Oliver, professor emerita of history at Ohio University, passed away at her home in…
On the December 2017 Townhouse Notes and Writing
To the editor: Thank you for your thoughtful piece on copyediting and writing (“Townhouse Notes: Writing, Copyediting, and Your First…
On the December 2017 Townhouse Notes and Grad School
To the editor: “Writing, Copyediting, and Your First Book” reminded me of a bizarre grad school incident in which I…
On “In England’s Dreaming”
To the editor: I never thought I would leap to the defense of The Crown—in both meanings of the phrase—but…
Food in the West
“Never underestimate the ‘hangry.’” This might as well be one of the learning objectives in my Foundations of Western Civilization…
AHA Member Spotlight: Kelly King-O’Brien
Kelly King-O’Brien is a lecturer and associate director of writing in the majors at Cornell University. She lives in Ithaca,…
Want to Write for the AHA?
A key skill for 21st-century historians, whether they work in the professoriate, public history, government, publishing, or beyond, is the…
Swinging in the Sun: The History and Business of Spring Baseball
Each year, in a tradition dating back over a century, major league clubs head to warm locales in the southern…
Defying Gravity
On the morning of February 20, 1962, Mrs. Curtis Hamilton served her family a “good, hot breakfast,” just as she…
Clio: Connecting Place with the Past
Living next to a World War I memorial arch, David Trowbridge, associate professor of history and the director of African…
AHA Member Spotlight: Jayanta Sengupta
Jayanta Sengupta is secretary and curator (director) at Victoria Memorial Hall. He lives in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and has…
AHA Announces 2018–20 Career Diversity Implementation Grants
The is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2018–20 Career Diversity Implementation Grants, part of the Career Diversity for…
The National History Center’s New Teaching Decolonization Resource Collection
Editor’s Note: The National History Center retired this resource collection in 2021. This article remains as a record but there…
AHA Member Spotlight: Elizabeth Manley
Elizabeth Manley is an associate professor of history at Xavier University of Louisiana. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, and…
High School Student Activism
As a child, I always enjoyed watching Eyes on the Prize on PBS during Black History Month. I was fascinated…
Placing the National School Walkout in Historical Context: A Lesson Plan
Tomorrow, many of my students will participate in what may be the largest single instance of high school activism in…
The Struggle to Commemorate Reconstruction
Following the American Civil War, the United States engaged in a process of reconstruction that was not only political and…
AHA Member Spotlight: Phil Rubio
Phil Rubio is associate professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. Phil lives in Durham, North…
Letter to a Prospective History Graduate Student
Congratulations! Right about now, you are basking in the afterglow of acceptance(s) to graduate school. Maybe you’ve been invited for…
2018 AHA Nominations
The Nominating Committee for 2018–19, chaired by William Deverell (Univ. of Southern California), met in Washington, DC, on February 9…
How the Feds Reshaped Higher Education
The paradox of American higher education is that it is at once so successful and so controversial. Our best universities…