Mental Health
At last year’s AHA annual meeting, a group of scholars convened to discuss mental health in the discipline of history. (The session, “Historians for Mental Health,” will be reprised at the 2018 meeting in Washington, DC.) Perspectives has been following conversations about the topic ever since, and we are pleased that three historians have contributed relevant pieces for this issue.
Photo: Hans/Pixabay
Staff
From the AHA
Paper Plans
The opening of classified Soviet archives following the demise of the USSR in 1991 resulted in an avalanche of…
Ties Once Broken: Researching the Families of a Single Slave Auction
In March 1859, on two stormy days, 436 men, women, and children, including 30 babies, were put up for…
Townhouse Notes: Complicating Ourselves into Obscurity
I devoted one of my earliest Perspectives columns to the historian’s store of clichés. One was “we must complicate our understanding.” As I…
Voyage to the Dark Side?
Some 30 years ago, I entered the PhD program in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my first entry into…
Gene Brucker (1924–2017)
Historian of Renaissance Florence; AHA 50-Year Member Gene Adam Brucker, Shepard Professor of History emeritus at the University of California,…
Thomas Haskell (1939–2017)
Historian of American Thought Thomas Haskell, the Samuel G. McCann Professor Emeritus of History at Rice University, died on July…
James Oliver Horton (1943–2017)
Historian of African Americans Jim Horton, a leading interpreter of antebellum African American community life and one of our discipline’s…
Response to the “AHA Statement on Confederate Monuments”
Editor’s note: On August 28, 2017, the AHA Council approved the “AHA Statement on Confederate Monuments” (posted on blog.historians.org and…
Teaching with Digital Archives
“Dr. Rosinbum, come over here! We’ve got to show you this.” When I walked over, a group of students excitedly…
AHA Member Spotlight: Sara Scalenghe
Sara Scalenghe is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Maryland. She lives in Washington, DC, and has been…
The Oral History Jukebox
Origins of the Oral History Jukebox Patrick Nugent: The idea for the Oral History Jukebox began with a Google search:…
AHA Member Spotlight: Lina Britto
Lina Britto is an assistant professor at Northwestern University. She lives in Chicago, Illinois, and has been a member since…
Teaching Effective Engagement: Some Strategies and Techniques
“Here’s a scenario,” I said to students in my course on the Holocaust. “Imagine that right now, the North Carolina…
Another Tough Year for the Academic Job Market in History
Job ads in the AHA Career Center, the leading venue for job advertisements aimed at history PhDs, have declined for…
AHA Member Spotlight: Beverly Bunch-Lyons
Beverly Bunch-Lyons is an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech, National Capital Region. She lives in Northern Virginia, and…
Professional Pathways: What’s New at AHA18
Through its work, the AHA has learned that popular wisdom severely underestimates the value and versatility of a history degree.…
America’s Front Yard: The National Mall through the Years
Even before its use as a hashtag during the most recent presidential campaign, the phrase “drain the swamp” had a…
AHA Member Spotlight: Daina Ramey Berry
Daina Ramey Berry is an associate professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas.…
Promoting Good Teaching in the Humanities: A Journal Series Takes Readers inside the Classroom
Hands wrung to the bone after years of crisis talk, humanities educators may justifiably think there’s nothing left to say…
Medievalism, White Supremacy, and the Historian’s Craft
With every passing day, the AHA’s upcoming annual meeting on the theme of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Global Perspective…