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Secrecy Prevails as Declassification Slows
To the public, 2018 was a tumultuous year in the US Department of State. The signal event there was President…
Advocacy Briefs
The AHA has spent September and October following several developing situations in legal courts, in the federal government, and at…
Townhouse Notes
History, as a discipline, has a race problem. White people dominate the study of history, as students and as those…
Sparking Joy at the Annual Meeting
Now that the AHA will no longer support job interviews at its annual meeting, that winter ritual will have a…
William Birney and the Abolitionist Memory Wars
In the decades after the formal abolition of American chattel slavery in 1865, the peculiar institution proved to be a…
AHA Member Spotlight: Reginald K. Ellis
Reginald K. Ellis is an associate professor of history and assistant dean for the School of Graduate Studies, Research and…
Using Digital History in the Classroom: Three Simple Principles
The majority of the essays in the “Teaching w/ #DigHist” series focus on the ways that teachers can apply specific…
2020 Visions
If you need a break from the usual sessions at the AHA annual meeting in New York City this year,…
AHA Council Can’t Get Enough
We asked AHA’s Council, “If you had to make room to attend just a few sessions in your field at…