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Liberty’s Legacies
In 1818, John Adams reflected on the founding of the nation, asking, “But what do We mean by the American…
AHA Member Spotlight: Silvia Escanilla Huerta
Silvia Escanilla Huerta is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She lives in Champaign, Illinois, and…
Preparing Students for Career Diversity
Last year, we participated in a panel on “Career Diversity for the Medievalist” at the 51st annual meeting of the…
Gendered Treatments of Trauma during the First World War
“Patient has an anxious frightened and distressed expression . . . is unhappy and emotional . . . .” During…
AHA Member Spotlight: Neal Hampton
Neal Hampton is a volunteer at the Indian Archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society. He lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,…
Chronicling “America’s African Instrument”: Laurent Dubois on the Cultural History of the Banjo
In The Banjo: America’s African Instrument (Harvard Univ. Press, 2016), Laurent Dubois weaves a narrative of how this instrument was…
“Dogs Were Our Defenders!”
“Dogs were our defenders! For black men who didn’t have guns . . .” A. Christiaan (interview, January 18, 2016)…
AHA Member Spotlight: Shuang Wen
Shuang Wen is a research fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore (MEI-NUS). She lives in Singapore…
From Museums to Corporate History
Twenty-five years have passed since I chose to pursue a history degree. Amazingly, it is one decision I have never…
Killing for Sheep
Over the course of my research into sheep farming in Namibia during the colonial and apartheid periods (emphasis on 1915–82),…
Statement of Particulars: Women’s Experiences of Trauma in the First World War
The image of the “shell-shocked soldier” remains one of the most enduring of the First World War. His symptoms have…
AHA Member Spotlight: Scott Alves Barton
Scott Alves Barton defended his dissertation, Feeding the Gods: Sacred Nagô Culinary Religious Culture in Northeastern Brazil, and was awarded…
Writing the Cold War Back In: How History Influences Chinese Foreign Policy
As Sino-American relations have emerged as a critical foreign policy issue in the Trump administration, public discourse has been awash…
Announcing the Winners of the 2017 AHA Today Blog Contest
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of our 2017 AHA Today Blog Contest. Over the course of the…
“They Are Coming for Us”
On a warm autumn night, at an Olive Garden outside Dallas, I prayed with a psychiatric doctor and his wife.…
“I Am Certainly Having a Most Wonderful Experience”
In 1920, Britain changed its pension laws to allow women to receive compensation for any injuries sustained during the First…
AHA Member Spotlight: Sana Aiyar
Sana Aiyar is an associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, and…
Exploring the Brutality of Expansion
Years ago, while preparing for a lecture, I ran across a GIF depicting the territorial expansion of the United States.…
“Vermin are Like Weeds in Your Garden”: Fences, Poisons, and Agricultural Transformation in Colonial Namibia
“Ongediertes is soos onkruid in jou tuin. Elke jaar moet jy weer van nuuts af begin skoonmaak.”[Vermin are like weeds…
News about the Proposed FY 2018 Budget
Last week, committees in the House of Representatives voted on recommendations for Fiscal Year 2018 budget allocations. Historical works takes…
AHA Member Spotlight: Fabian Klose
Fabian Klose is a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz and privatdozent at the…
Digitizing the Royal Archives: The Georgian Papers Programme
On September 28, 1833, Prince George FitzClarence, the oldest illegitimate son of King William IV of the United Kingdom, dined…
“To Save Her Sister’s Soul”: Uncovering a Nurse’s Trauma in WWI Britain
One of the most challenging aspects of studying the case notes of women treated for war trauma is that I…
Actions by the AHA Council, January to June 2017
Through e-mail conversation from January 9, 2017, to May 12, 2017, and at meetings on June 3 and 4, 2017,…
AHA Member Spotlight: Melissa Darby
Melissa Darby is a research scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Portland State University and a private consultant in…
Where Historians Work: How to Find Yourself in the Data
Several months ago, the AHA released “Where Historians Work,” a series of interactive visualizations created as part of our ongoing…
AHA Member Spotlight: Julia E. Rodriguez
Julia E. Rodriguez is an associate professor at the University of New Hampshire. She lives in Durham, New Hampshire, and…
Teaching w/ #DigHist in the New School Year
Since first publishing in August 2016, Teaching w/ #DigHist has offered a range of teaching tools to instructors interested in…
AHA Member Spotlight: Fred Carroll
Fred Carroll is a lecturer at Kennesaw State University. He lives in Acworth, Georgia, and has been a member since…
AHA Statement on Confederate Monuments
The tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, have re-ignited debate about the place of Confederate monuments in public spaces, as well…
A History Dissertation Goes Digital
A few months ago, Celeste Sharpe, then a graduate student at George Mason University (GMU), defended what is purportedly the…
“Fire and Fury”
The United States and North Korea recently exchanged several hostile and absurd words—“enveloping fire” (North Korea), “we are now a…
AHA Member Spotlight: Cynthia E. Orozco
Cynthia E. Orozco is professor of history and humanities at Eastern New Mexico University, Ruidoso. She lives in Ruidoso, New…
Wrapping Up the 2017 AHA Today Summer Blog Contest
Since launching in 2015, the AHA Today Summer Blog Contest has focused on one thing: to give graduate students an…
AHA Member Spotlight: Wen-Qing Ngoei
Wen-Qing Ngoei is an assistant professor in the History Program at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and has…
The Cold War Never Ended
With tensions at an all-time high between the United States and North Korea, the New York Times headlined its recent…
When Historians Collaborate, Scholarship Benefits
Editor’s Note: This piece is first in a series of two posts on collaborative historical research. The second post can…
Made by History: A New Blog for Engaging the Public
“In order to make history, we first have to understand how history has made us,” reads the introduction to Made…
AHA Member Spotlight: Edward Polanco
Edward Polanco is a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, and has been a…
Thinking about Where Historians Work before Graduate School
Working at the American Historical Association for the past two years has made it impossible to shield myself from the…
Caught between a Rock and a Hyrax
Driving down south from Keetmanshoop toward Grünau on southern Namibia’s B1 trunk road, it’s common to spot small mammals hustling…
AHA Member Spotlight: Naoko Wake
Naoko Wake is an associate professor of American history at Michigan State University. She lives in East Lansing, Michigan, and…