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Privileging History: Trends in the Undergraduate Origins of History PhDs
[PDF version] As we look back over the past 40 years, we find that after decades of lowering the barriers…
Teaching the Introductory Survey: Insights from the College Board’s AP® Survey
The following report was prepared by Robert Townsend, assistant director for research and publications at the AHA, in consultation with…
College Board Advanced Placement Curriculum Questionnaire
US HistoryFall 2003 First Name: Last Name: Institution: Email Address: Does your department offer an introductory level survey in United…
Rethinking America in Global Perspective: A Report on the Institute
From June 20 to July 15, 2005, the AHA conducted a summer institute entitled “Rethinking America in Global Perspective,” for…
National History Center Receives Quarter-Million-Dollar Grant Mellon Foundation to Conduct Seminars on Decolonization
The National History Center, an initiative of the American Historical Association, has received a grant of $250,000 from the Andrew…
International Congress Brings Historians from around the World to Sydney
Some 1,400 historians from around the world gathered in Australia for the 20th meeting of the International Congress of Historical…
NASA and Jameson Fellowships Awarded
NASA Fellowship Alexander Brown received the 2005–2006 Fellowship in Aerospace history sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).…
Contested Histories
One of the days in Mike Leigh's film, Four Days in July, is July 12, when Protestants in Northern Ireland…
Letter to the Prime Minister of Turkey Expresses Concern about Cancellation of Conference
Editor's Note: We print below the text of the letter written on behalf of the Association by AHA President to…
History Doctoral Programs Web Site Updated to Provide Improved Information for Applicants
The History Doctoral Programs section of the AHA web site now enters its second year. This major database, easily accessible…
National History Center’s Seminar Spotlights Social Security
Myths and misunderstandings about what social security is, and misperceptions of what the makers of social security policies really intended…
A Continuing Congressional Concern: “U.S. History–Our Worst Subject”
One of the hallmarks of the current Congress and of the Republican administration is a continuing concern over American history,…
News Briefs, September 2005
Education Department Issues Compliance Guidelines for “Constitution Day” Requirement In an effort to comply with a statutory provision inserted in…
Call for Proposals: The 2007 Annual Meeting of the AHA
The 121st annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 4–7, 2007, in Atlanta. The AHA is…
Meeting Theme: “Unstable Subjects: Practicing History in Unsettled Times”
From the totalizing and familiar frame of the nation-state that will be examined extensively in the 2006 AHA Annual Meeting,…
Annual Meeting: Guidelines for Implementation
The AHA Council approved on January 6, 1994 (and amended January 7, 2001) the following policy regarding the location of…
Electronic Proposal Submission System for the 2007 Meeting
Paper proposals will not be accepted, but user-friendly online forms will make task much easier At its January 2004 meeting,…
On “A Modest Proposal”
To the Editor: It is unfortunate that in his essay, “A Modest Proposal” (Perspectives, May 2005), Peter Stearns promotes the…
“Preserving the Past”
To the Editor: Although I agree with James Sheehan that historians should support museums' preservationist mission, I found parts of…
Teaching by the Playbook
To the Editor: I enjoyed reading Bill Shuttlesworth and William Edgington's "Preparing Non-Historians to Teach History: The Coaching History Playbook”…
Peter E. Hogan (1921-2004)
Reverend Peter E. Hogan, SSJ, trained archivist and a 50-year member of the AHA, died on May 5, 2004. More…
Raymond H. Schmandt (1925-2005)
Raymond H. Schmandt, professor of history at Saint Joseph’s University, died February 22, 2005, after a prolonged illness. A PhD…