Every Historian Counts
In June, the AHA launched Where Historians Work, an interactive database showing career outcomes for more than 8,000 history PhDs who received their degrees in 2004–13. The product of our Career Diversity for Historians initiative, the database is the fullest representation of its kind in any discipline.
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The Trump administration has a dismal record when it comes to transparency. Since the president’s inauguration, several government agencies have…
Why Read Why Learn History
Many people equate “historical knowledge” with nothing more than facts, names, and dates. So if a five-inch handheld device can…
Advocacy Briefs
The American Historical Association promotes broad historical research and teaching. Over the summer, we joined several coalitions to encourage inclusive…
How Did You Choose Your Field?
Photo: Dan Waters This month’s column follows last April’s examination of responses to an email survey I sent to…
The Business of Publishing Concerns Us All
I was, I must confess, an anti-AHA annual meeting dogmatist. With more than a decade of practice, I had made…
Clifford Adelman (1942–2018)
Clifford Adelman, a leading researcher on the conditions of US and global higher education, died on May 3, 2018, at…
Georg G. Iggers (1926–2017)
Georg G. Iggers died on November 26, 2017, in Williamsville, New York, shortly before his 91st birthday. He was known…
Sally Marks (1931–2018)
Sally Marks, one of the most influential historians of interwar diplomacy, died on January 13, 2018, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. For…
Hayden V. White (1928–2018)
Hayden V. White, a leading intellectual and theoretical historian whose magnum opus Metahistory (1974) helped pioneer the linguistic turn in…
On “The Real Academic World”
To the editor: We write to comment on “The Real Academic World” (Perspectives, May 2018), which narrates the early career…
On the May 2018 Advocacy Briefs
To the editor: In May 2018’s Perspectives on History, it is reported that AHA president Mary Beth Norton, on behalf…
AHA Member Spotlight: Katja Guenther
Katja Guenther is an associate professor of history at Princeton University. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and has been…
Raising a Stink
“What Stinks in Midtown?” asked an article in the Detroit Free Press in 2011. I’d never really set out to…
Ground Strategy
In the early 1980s the local TV news programs in Lincoln, Nebraska, began with a weather report, followed by spot…
AHA Member Spotlight: Beth Hessel
Beth Hessel is executive director of the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS). Beth lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has been a…
AHA Member Spotlight: Bianca Premo
Bianca Premo is a professor of history at Florida International University. She also is currently the vice president and president-elect…
Declassification Woes
In 1989, the Historian’s Office at the Department of State (HO) published Iran 1952–54—a volume of the long running series…
AHA Member Spotlight: Jessica L. Adler
Jessica Adler is an assistant professor at Florida International University. She lives in Miami, Florida, and has been a member…
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