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Advocacy Briefs, March 2024
From October 2023 into the new year, the AHA continued to monitor state-level education legislation and activities, offering testimony opposing…
We Will All Go Together When We Go
In 1973, Thomas Andrew Lehrer quit comedy because “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.”…
Contact Binaries
On November 1, 2023, the NASA spacecraft Lucy was two years into its mission to explore eight Trojan asteroids that…
On “Merze Tate”
To the Editor: As is typical of all In Memoriam essays, I greatly enjoyed the Long Overdue contribution by Barbara…
Natalie Zemon Davis (1928–2023)
Natalie Zemon Davis was the most renowned anglophone historian of early modern France of her generation. She was born in…
Edward G. Gray (1964–2023)
Edward G. Gray was a prolific and rigorous scholar with the deep humanistic insight of a true menschenkenner. Trained at…
Robert J. Knowlton (1941–2023)
Robert J. Knowlton, professor of Mexican and American history emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point (UWSP), died on November…
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938)
Photo: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, New York Public Library An activist-intellectual whose work…
AHA Member Spotlight: Mara Cota
Mara Cota is an academic librarian and tenure-track faculty at San Diego State University Imperial Valley (a satellite campus of…
Bridging Cultures, Nourishing Souls
Imagine this: a masterpiece crafted by Chinese American chefs, blending traditional Chinese culinary ingredients like cornmeal, carrots, garlic, and water,…
AHA Member Spotlight: Toshihiro Higuchi
Toshihiro Higuchi is an associate professor at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, DC, and has been a member since…
Want to Write for the AHA?
The AHA is seeking three graduate students to write two columns each on an aspect of their work as historians…