Are You Sitting Up Straight?
Look down. Are you hunched over? Are your shoulders up near your ears? Are you sitting or standing up straight?…
Advocacy Briefs, May 2024
In early 2024, the AHA wrote to four state legislatures to oppose proposed legislation that would eliminate and politicize tenure,…
Defining History’s Future
Every June, I go into the AHA job ads database and access the data for the last year, the first…
Archives of a Different Sort
In June 1862, Confederate forces raided a refugee camp on Hutchinson’s Island in South Carolina that housed people who had…
On “Forging Ahead”
To the Editor: A recent rereading of the Perspectives issue on retirement (May 2022) has led me to think about my own position. I’m retiring…
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023)
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, distinguished historian of ancient régime France, died at age 94 on November 22, 2023. He embarked…
George K. Behlmer (1948–2024)
George K. Behlmer, historian of modern Britain and professor emeritus at the University of Washington (UW), died on January 4,…
Susie Lee Owens Bryant (1905–86)
Susie Lee Owens Bryant was one of the first African American women to earn a PhD in history, but as…