The 126th Annual Meeting
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Making the AHA and the Historical Profession Accessible
Between 1 and 5 percent of historians identify themselves as disabled in surveys, a figure that likely excludes many more…
Getting Free of the IRB: A Call to Action for Oral History
The federal government has offered a significant opportunity to weigh in on the intrusion of institutional review boards (IRBs) into…
American History Now: An Apt Book for the Times from Temple University Press
Edited by Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr, American History Now has essays by Alan Taylor, Woody Holton, Seth Rockman, Adam…
National History Day: Judge for Yourself
National History Day is more than a day. It is an academic competition designed to teach students at both the…
Free Access to Online Job Ads from September 1
On September 1, 2011, the AHA opened up access to the history job advertisements posted on its web site to…
Update from the Graduate and Early Career Committee
A quick update on some of the material the Graduate and Early Career Committee (GECC) has been working on recently: …
To Chicago for the 126th Annual Meeting
The 126th annual meeting of the Association will be held January 5–8, 2012, in Chicago at the Chicago Marriott Downtown,…
Discounted Registration Rates for Teacher-Student Groups
Preregistration required; teachers must be AHA members To nurture interest in history among students and to encourage their mentors, the…
The Arc of Writing History: Building Bridges from the Periphery to the Center
It's spring, late April, and I am having trouble focusing on work as New Jersey briefly turns into a floral…
President Nixon’s Archival Records in the News Again
A federal judge has ordered the release of nearly 300 hundred pages of President Richard M. Nixon's 1975 testimony before…
News Briefs, September 2011
Bill Introduced in the House to Abolish the NHPRC Legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives to eliminate…
Decline of the West or the Rise of the Rest? Data from 2010 Shows Rebalancing of Field Coverage in Departments
A study of the specializations of 16,016 historians listed in the latest AHA Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and…
The Art of Manuscript Reviewing: Learning from the Example of Peggy Pascoe
Author's Note: Our profession is at once deeply solitary and yet fundamentally collective. Beyond acknowledgments in books and articles, we…
Teaching History, Doing Research: Personal Perspectives from a Secondary School Teacher
The American historical community sits atop a veritable gold mine. There exists in its midst a vast, heretofore underused resource…
Making NCATE Work for Your Program: Using the National Review System to Improve History Teacher Preparation
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) reviews have never been a popular topic for departments of history.1 Many…
The Treasures of Medical History at the NLM: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Celebrates 175 Years
2011 marks the 175th anniversary of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) which traces its origins to 1836…
Censoring American Diplomatic History
Serious analysts of American foreign policy know the value of the State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)…
Call for Proposals for the 2013 Annual Meeting of the AHA
The 127th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 3–6, 2013, in New Orleans. The Program…
“Lives, Places, Stories”: Theme for the 2013 Annual Meeting
The 127th annual meeting of the American Historical Association convenes January 3–6, 2013, in New Orleans, which has one of…
The National History Center Is Nearly Ten
Editor's Note: In 2012, The National History Center, an initiative of the American Historical Association, will be celebrating the 10th…
Newest Affiliates of the AHA
At its meeting in early June, the AHA Council accepted four new applications for affiliation from the Association for Documentary…
Helen Hornbeck Tanner (1916–2011)
Historian of Colonial North America Helen Hornbeck Tanner, a historian of colonial North America, and a senior research fellow at…
Bernard Sinsheimer (1921–2011)
Professor of History in the European Division of the University of Maryland Bernard Sinsheimer, professor of American and European history…
Manning Marable (1950–2011)
Activist, Public Intellectual, and Biographer of Malcolm X The historian, public intellectual, and activist Manning Marable died on April 1,…
Sharon K. Broadley (1942–2010)
Historian of Early Modern France Sharon K. Broadley (née Kettering) left her beloved husband, cherished dogs, former colleagues and friends…
David Darlington (1977—2011)
David Darlington, associate editor of Perspectives on History; coeditor of the AHA’s Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians;…
Job Opening: Staff Accountant for the AHA
The AHA is hiring a Staff Accountant. The Staff Accountant is an integral part of the business office team. The…
AHA Seeks an Associate Editor to Join the Publications Team
The Association is looking for a historian with some knowledge of digital technologies to join the publications team as Associate…
Could History Become an “Information Risk”?
A dark cloud lurks behind the silver lining of the recent federal proposal to overhaul rules covering institutional review boards…
Happy 5th Birthday, AHA Today!
AHA Today is five years old today! Whether you’ve been with us from the beginning, or just started following the…
Child Care Grants for the 126th Annual Meeting
In a pilot program for the January 5–8, 2012 Annual Meeting in Chicago, the AHA will offer 10 child care…
The Future is Here: Digital History at the 126th Annual Meeting
The AHA’s 126th Annual Meeting in Chicago this January 5-8, 2012, will feature nearly two dozen sessions on digital history.…
The End of the Book as We Know It?
What becomes of the book online, if it effectively becomes more like a journal—searchable and perhaps even purchasable at the…
Two AHA Members Awarded MacArthur Fellowships
The AHA is delighted to report that Tiya Miles and Jacob Soll, two of the Association’s members, are among the…
Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchive: Records and Images Now Online
The Frick Art Reference Library recently announced that research documentation on 125,000 works of art as well as 15,000 images…
Discounted Teacher-Student Group Rates at AHA Annual Meeting
To nurture interest in history among students and to encourage their mentors, the AHA is again offering special discounted annual…
Preregister for the 2012 AHA Annual Meeting
Beginning today, you can now preregister and book hotels for the AHA’s 126th Annual Meeting in Chicago, January 5–8, 2012.…
Oxford University Press to Publish American Historical Review
In an effort to open up new opportunities for the American Historical Review and its subscribers, the Association will shift…
New AHA Publications on the Constitution and Global and Comparative History
The AHA recently published one new pamphlet in the New Essays on American Constitutional History series and six new pamphlets…
Free Access to Online Job Ads
On September 1, 2011, the AHA opened up access to the history job advertisements posted on its website to everyone.…
Perspectives on History—September 2011
The online version of the September 2011 issue of Perspectives on History is now available to AHA members (sign in…