Historians under EU Criminal Law
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What’s in the October 2009 AHR?
The October 2009 issue of theAmerican Historical Review should soon be in members’ mailboxes (and will thereafter be available online…
Senate Bids Farewell to Historian Baker
Several current and former senators of the United States—including the majority leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the minority leader,…
AHA Establishes Technology Advisory Committee
The Association has established a Technology Advisory Committee to provide guidance to the AHA Council and staff on how the…
Historians under Criminal Law: EU Legislation Casts a Shadow on Historical Research
The “framework decisions” of the Council of the European Union rarely get the attention of historians. Intended to align the…
The Cuban Revolution at 50: Taking the Measure at a Conference in Canada
The story is told that some weeks after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Ernest Hemingway and a friend sat…
Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage: An AHA Miniconference at the 124th Annual Meeting
Marriage, wrote historian William Alexander in 1779, “is so far from having been an institution, fixed by permanent and unalterable…
The Fiscal 2010 Federal Budget: Prospects for the History and Archives Communities
Despite the generally tight budget parameters for discretionary non-defense programs this year, federal programs of interest to the historical and…
A Most Pressing Challenge: Preparing Teachers of World History
Editor’s Note: The editorial board of Perspectives on History decided that the arguments advanced by the authors of the following…
Teaching World History: Issues and Possibilities
We live in a Global Economy—One of 150,000 lessons listed on Lesson Planet, A Search Engine for Teachers The World…
Getting the Big Picture: Teaching World History Teachers
Reading the article by Bain and Harris was a stimulating experience. I appreciated the new and compelling data about the…
Teaching Teachers of World History
In professional development workshops or summer institutes, when consultants get to talking about their teacher-participants, one question often looms large.…
Masters and the Movies, Take 11: Stan Katz on Eyes on the Prize
Under the rubric “Masters at the Movies,” this column features a variety of articles about film crafted by some of…
Eyes on the Prize: A Documentary to Be Prized
Once, in the early 1980s, I actually played a dramatic role in a pseudo-historical film. The script, such as it…
Time to Dispense with the AHA Conference Interviews?
Editor’s Note: We print below an adapted version of a recent blog post on AHA Today both because of the…
Center Hosts Summer Institute on Immigration
In July 2009 the National History Center hosted a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer institute on the theme,…
The AHA and the George Washington Bicentennial in 1932
On December 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed a joint resolution that established a commission to oversee the bicentennial of…
Kenneth M. Stampp (1912-2009)
Monumental scholar of American slavery and Reconstruction; 1989 Award for Scholarly Distinction winner Kenneth M. Stampp, a formidable scholar and…
Joseph O. Baylen (1920-2009)
Few students fortunate enough to have attended one of Joe Baylen’s lectures ever forgot the experience. He vividly brought the…
Eugene Yazkov (1924-2009)
2000 Honorary Foreign Member On March 28, 2009, the world of historical scholarship lost an extraordinary figure when Eugene Yazkov,…
Roger R. Trask (1930-2008)
Fifty-year member of the AHA Very few scholars have the opportunity to pursue their academic passions for more than five…
American Historical Review – October 2009 Online
The October 2009 issue of the American Historical Review is now on-line at the University of Chicago Press. It contains…
2008 AHA Annual Report
The AHA’s Annual Report for 2008 is now available online. It contains a preface from former AHA president Gabrielle M.…
AHA’s Two-Year College Task Force Begins Work
The ad hoc Two-Year College Task Force, which was established by the AHA’s Council in January 2009, has begun its…
Members’ Books Received at the AHA – October 2009
As a service to AHA members, we are listing books by membersreceived in the headquarters office in recent months.These postings…
Directory of History Departments and Organizations Now Online
We are pleased to announce that a searchable edition of the Directory of History Departments and Organizations is now available…
Africa Past and Present Podcast – Q&A with Dr. Peter Alegi
Note: This interview follows Monday’s post on the Africa Past and Present podcast site. The following is an interview with…
Perspectives on History – October 2009
This month, in the October issue of Perspectives on History, get ready for the 124th AHA Annual Meeting, keep up…
Africa Past and Present: The Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics
Podcasts continue to gain popularity in both social and academic realms, becoming a routine part of Internet lingo. Africa Past…
Job Center 2010 – Reservations now Accepted
Is your institution conducting interviews at the 124th annual meeting this January? The forms for reserving tables or private rooms…
New Books in History Podcast of Atlantic World Book
The National History Center has entered into a partnership with New Books In History, which audiocasts interviews with historians discussing…
Forum Network – Free lectures online
The Forum Network is a collaboration of PBS and NPR, bringing together audio and video lectures online for free. The…
Urge the Senate Not to Eliminate NSF’s Political Science Program
Crossposted from the National Coalition for History’s web site. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has proposed an amendment (No. 2631) to…
The U.S. Supreme Court – Past, Present, and Future
A recent article, “Down the Memory Hole,” by Linda Greenhouse at the New York Times anticipates the release of former…
Slavery in America – Online Resources
The University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) recently announced the launch of its new online…