History, Front and Center

We worked on this election-themed issue of Perspectives throughout a summer defined as much by Black Lives Matter protests and escalating attacks on Americans’ voting rights as by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We demand the right to vote, everywhere” and “stop brutality” signs, held aloft by Black people demonstrating outside the White House in 1965, are as relevant and necessary today as they were a half-century ago. In “So Far Away from 1965,” Julian Zelizer provides us with a history of the Voting Rights Act and outlines the various ways that its critics have succeeded in reversing its progress.

Photo: Library of Congress/Warren K. Leffler, 2014645538. Image cropped.

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Staff

Ashley E. Bowen, editor
Laura Ansley, managing editor
Karen Lou, editorial assistant
Alexandra F. Levy, web and social media coordinator
Liz Townsend, manager, data administration and integrity

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August 17, 2020

From the President

Going Remote
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May 29, 2020

In Memoriam

John D. Buenker (1937–2020)
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July 14, 2020

In Memoriam

Robert Forster (1926–2020)
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June 5, 2020

In Memoriam

John M. Murrin (1935–2020)
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July 30, 2020

In Memoriam

W. J. Rorabaugh (1945–2020)
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July 16, 2020

In Memoriam

Robert L. Zangrando (1932–2019)
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September 2, 2020

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Looking Out for Each Other
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September 3, 2020

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Building Archives, Training Scholars
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September 4, 2020

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Ted Dickson
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September 14, 2020

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A rationale for studying history today must acknowledge both the serious challenges to the discipline and the dynamic changes within the discipline that have developed over the past quarter century.

September 18, 2020

Perspectives Daily

Why Study History? Revisited
The US Census Bureau already promotes shaping the future of your community as a reason to fill out the census. What if they offered the chance to shape the future of history?

September 25, 2020

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