Erasing Identity
Historians are no strangers to speaking out over issues of whitewashing the past. In recent months, historians have called out Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren for her claims to Native identity based on DNA and for muddling the distinctions between ancestry and sovereign citizenship. Meanwhile, in Australia, historians have denounced the redaction of words such as “Aboriginal” from archival records. Read more in this month’s issue.
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White Lies
It was like clockwork. Every semester, a few white students in Julie Reed’s classes on US history at the University…
Plan S and the Humanities
In recent weeks, something called Plan S has caused no shortage of doom mongering among some people and emancipatory zeal…
Townhouse Notes: Meritocracy and the Job Application Arms Race
It may be that assistant professor applications became onerous with the very best of intentions. There are historians today who…
Starting from Scratch
In an interview published in the January issue of Perspectives, I mentioned in passing that I had more than once…
Eugene J. Kisluk (1948–2018)
A member of the American Historical Association since 1973, Eugene J. Kisluk was an erudite scholar and a born raconteur.…
Leo Ribuffo (1945–2018)
Leo Paul Ribuffo, a professor of history at George Washington University, died unexpectedly on November 28, 2018, in his Washington,…
Shaping the Future of the History Survey
Last fall, I attended the AHA’s fourth annual Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses. As an adjunct instructor and early…
AHA Member Spotlight: Zach Klitzman
Zach Klitzman is the senior executive assistant at President Lincoln’s Cottage. He lives in Washington, DC, and has been a…
AHA Member Spotlight: Robin Kietlinski
Robin Kietlinski is an associate professor of history at LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York. She…
Prosecuting Torture
Left unmentioned in the postmortem commentary on the life of Congressman Walter B. Jones Jr., who died on February 10,…
AHA Member Spotlight: Mark R. Jacobson
Mark R. Jacobson is the John J. McCloy ’16 Professor of American Institutions and International Diplomacy at Amherst College. He…
Want to Write for the AHA?
A key skill for historians, whether they work in the professoriate, public history, government, publishing, or beyond, is the ability…
AHA Member Spotlight: Ana Lucia Araujo
Ana Lucia Araujo is a professor in the Department of History of Howard University. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, and…
One Is a Lonely Demographic
The AHA’s Committee on Minority Historians sponsored a session at the 2019 annual meeting in Chicago to make space for…