Volume 51 | Issue 8

November 2013

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Material Culture in the Digital Frame

Anti-Apartheid Portraits Quilt, made c. 2003 by Fina Nkosi, Soweto, South Africa. Collection of the Michigan State University Museum.

Staff

Allen Mikaelian, editor
Jennifer Reut, associate editor
Christian Hale, production manager and layout
Liz Townsend, coordinator, job center and professional data
Vanessa Varin, associate editor, web and social media
Kelly Elmore, marketing manager

Featured Articles

November 1, 2013

Career Paths

In Admin: Four History PhDs Discuss their Alt-Ac Careers

From the AHA

Pencils on yellow background

November 1, 2013

From the Executive Director

Making the Case

November 1, 2013

AHA Activities, News

The New AHA Website

November 1, 2013

AHA Activities, Perspectives on Culture

From the Pacific to the Atlantic AHA’s Bridging Cultures Program Enters Its Second Year

November 1, 2013

AHA Activities

Tuning Project Releases New Version of History Discipline Core

November 1, 2013

Five Myths about the American Historical Review

November 1, 2013

AHA Activities, News

AHA Establishes the Friedrich Katz Prize

November 1, 2013

AHA Activities, News

The AHA-NASA Aerospace History Fellowship

November 1, 2013

AHA Activities

Introducing AHA Communities: An Online Hub for Historians

November 1, 2013

AHA Activities, News

A New Guide for Teaching in Civics, Economics, Geography, and History

Other Articles

November 1, 2013

Material Culture in the Digital Frame: Introduction

November 1, 2013

Artifacts as Pixels, Pixels as Artifacts: Working with Photographs in the Digital Age

November 1, 2013

Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Digital Archive and Website: What Could Writing History Look Like in a Digital Age?

November 1, 2013

Stitched Together: Doing History with the Quilt Index

November 1, 2013

Advanced History for Beginners

November 1, 2013

The Historian’s Craft of Teaching

November 1, 2013

History Coalition Active, Even as Government Stalls

November 1, 2013

The Digitization and Democratization of Oral History

November 1, 2013

Complex Shades of Green

November 1, 2013

From Reggae to “Education for a Change!”

November 1, 2013

News

Ike Memorial Mired in Controversy

November 1, 2013

The Presidential Sessions at the 128th Annual Meeting

November 1, 2013

Six Questions about the AHA Annual Meeting

November 1, 2013

Debating History and Politics at the Eighth Annual AHA Film Festival

November 1, 2013

Tours Organized by the Local Arrangements Committee

November 1, 2013

128th Annual Meeting Highlights

November 1, 2013

Generations of Women’s History at the 2014 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

November 1, 2013

News

Prizes, Awards, and Honors to Be Conferred at the 128th Annual Meeting

November 1, 2013

News

Member News, November 2013

November 2, 2013

Letters to the Editor

On “An Assignment from Our Students”

November 1, 2013

In Memoriam

Arvarh E. Strickland (1930–2013)

November 1, 2013

In Memoriam

William Z. Slany (1928–2013)

November 1, 2013

In Memoriam

Martha Jackson Ross (1923–2013)

November 1, 2013

In Memoriam

Pauline R. Maier (1938–2013)

November 1, 2013

In Memoriam

Charles Jelavich (1922–2013)

November 1, 2013

In Memoriam

Robert Fogel (1926–2013)

November 1, 2013

In Memoriam

William A. Chaney (1922–2013)

November 1, 2013

In Memoriam

William Marvin Bowsky (1930–2013)

November 1, 2013

In Memoriam

For the Record: An Editor’s Reflection on the In Memoriam Essays

November 29, 2013

New Discounts for AHA 2014

November 29, 2013

Flashback Friday: A Gentleman’s Game of Faro

November 27, 2013

Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Thanksgiving with Pie and Apple Cider

November 27, 2013

AHA Activities

Perspectives on History forum on Material Culture in the Digital Frame

November 27, 2013

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Christopher McKnight Nichols

November 26, 2013

The Malleable PhD at the 2014 Annual Meeting

November 25, 2013

Historians and History Museums: Offsite Sessions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History

November 22, 2013

JFK: 50th Anniversary

November 22, 2013

History Jobs Update: November 22, 2013

November 22, 2013

Join the Committee on Minority Historians for a Brainstorming Session

November 22, 2013

Flashback Friday: Horsing Around

November 21, 2013

Is 3D Printing: A Game Changer?

November 21, 2013

Session of the Week: Governmentality and LGBT Lives

November 20, 2013

Let There Be WiFi!

November 20, 2013

What Does the Google Books Decision Mean for Historians?

November 20, 2013

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: David J. Trowbridge

November 19, 2013

What Sessions Do You Want to See Recorded at the AHA’s Annual Meeting in January?

November 19, 2013

From the Executive Director

Banish the Thought: A Response to the Times Book Review

November 19, 2013

A New Oral History Association Organization Forms in India

November 18, 2013

From the Executive Director

Immigration Policy: Why Legislation (and Its History) Matters

November 15, 2013

Flashback Friday: Extreme Cycling

November 15, 2013

AHA Activities

Why You Should Be Reading the In Memoriam Section

November 15, 2013

History Jobs Update: November 15, 2013

November 14, 2013

A Grad Student’s Guide to Getting the Most Out of the AHA Annual Meeting

November 14, 2013

Screening Slavery: Robert Brent Toplin on 12 Years a Slave

November 14, 2013

Session of the Week: The “History Wars” of the 1990s: What Was That All About?

November 12, 2013

Announcing THATCampAHA 2014

November 12, 2013

What I Do: Historians Talk About Their Work

November 8, 2013

History Jobs Update: November 8, 2013

November 8, 2013

Flashback Friday: Extreme Cirque du Soleil

November 7, 2013

Session of the Week: The Period of Significance is NOW: Catalytic Change at Historic Sites

November 6, 2013

Member Spotlight, News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Matthew Lawrence Daley

November 6, 2013

AHA Activities

Digitization, Undergraduate Teaching, and Environmentalism in November Perspectives

November 1, 2013

Flashback Friday: Suffragette on a Scooter

News

November 1, 2013

News

Cataloging for the Future: NARA on Archiving Federal E-mail Records