What Is Trans History?
Twenty years ago, transgender history was a marginal field of study. Today, it is vibrant and full of potential. But what is trans history, what are its objects of study, and what are the interventions it’s trying to make? AHA associate editor, publications, Kritika Agarwal contributes this month’s feature on how the field is taking shape and where it’s headed next.
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Archiving the Final Frontier
In July 1975, a NASA Apollo spacecraft linked up in space with a Soviet Soyuz capsule. With the spacecraft docked…
The Story of the Multigraph Collective
Thirteen years ago, in Montréal’s university community, four scholars (three of them recent transplants, and all four feeling somewhat isolated)…
Advocacy Briefs: AHA Defends Humanities Funding and History Education
The AHA actively promoted history education and the protection of historical resources this spring. With federal appropriations season underway, the…
Townhouse Notes: Feeling Good as Hell with a PhD
It’s May, which means about a thousand history PhD candidates nationwide will have the opportunity to get hooded. Lots of…
An Embarrassment of Witches
“WITCH HUNT!” That’s how President Donald Trump’s tweets tend to refer to the investigation led by Robert Mueller into possible…
Lerone Bennett Jr. (1928–2018)
Historian of Black America The historian and journalist Lerone Bennett Jr. passed away on February 14, 2018, at age 89.…
Charles Joyner (1935–2016)
Historian of the US South Renowned and beloved historian of the American South Charles Joyner died on September 13, 2016.…
Phyllis B. Roberts (1932–2018)
Medieval Historian; AHA 50-Year Member Phyllis Barzillay Roberts, a groundbreaking scholar in medieval sermon studies, died on January 14, 2018,…
Announcing the Winners of the 2018 AHA Summer Blog Contest
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of our 2018 Summer Blog Contest. Follow along as these graduate students…
AHA Member Spotlight: Nicole Tarulevicz
Nicole Tarulevicz is senior lecturer of history and of Asian studies at the University of Tasmania (Australia). She lives in…
A Career in Corporate Finance
When I interviewed for a job in corporate finance at Houghton Mifflin in 1992, the publishing firm’s CEO was far…
AHA Member Spotlight: Andrae Marak
Andrae Marak is a dean and professor of history and political science at Governors State University. He lives in Homewood,…
Demolishing “Participatory Dictatorship”
In a rambling speech to colleagues on Hitler’s birthday in 1963, district party secretary Paul Fröhlich insisted upon the proposed…
2018 AHA Research Grant Winners
Each year, the awards several research grants with the aim of advancing the study and exploration of history in a…
History Education in Finland
Journalists can’t stop talking about Finnish education. Finland has won kudos both for its consistently strong performance on the PISA—an…
AHA Member Spotlight: Charles Walker
Charles Walker is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis, where he holds the MacArthur Foundation Endowed…
Making Historians in the Archive
The blue books are all graded. If you’re in the coursework zone, your own assignments are in. The sun is…
“Our Biggest Mistake Is That We Trusted You Too Much”
Trust matters in international affairs. Unquantifiable and invisible, its presence can nonetheless bridge seemingly insurmountable divides. Trust, and its counterpart…
AHA Member Spotlight: Jocelyn Imani
Jocelyn Imani is principal consultant at Cultural Interpretation Consultants, LLC. She lives in Washington, DC, and has been a member…
Broadening Horizons
We stopped in front of a painting portraying a group of villagers by a river. “What do you see?” asked…
AHA Member Spotlight: Beau D.J. Gaitors
Beau D.J. Gaitors is an assistant professor of history at Winston-Salem State University in the Department of History, Politics, and…
The Geography of History PhDs
The AHA’s “Where Historians Work” is an ambitious research project designed to track the career outcomes of everyone who earned…