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AHA Member Spotlight: Caroline Waldron Merithew
Caroline Waldron Merithew is an associate professor of history at the University of Dayton. She lives in Dayton, Ohio, and…
Were Soviet Tanks Deployed in Egypt 50 Years Ago?
On February 3, 2018, Russian Air Force Maj. Roman Filipov’s jet was shot down while attacking rebel positions in Syria.…
Digging through the Hillary Clinton Email Archive
Politicians’ emails provide historians an exciting window into the fast-paced, formal and informal, and sometimes chaotic world of politics. The…
AHA Member Spotlight: Paul Peucker
Paul Peucker is archivist/director at the Moravian Archives. He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and has been a member since 2008. …
Goodbye, AHA Today, Hello, Perspectives Daily!
In September 2006, AHA Today launched with a simple goal: to report on the latest happenings in the discipline of…
AHA Member Spotlight: Julia Gaffield
Julia Gaffield is an assistant professor at Georgia State University. She lives in Decatur, Georgia, and has been a member…
Origins of an Atrocity
While traveling around Yangon, Myanmar, this April at higher speeds than I liked, my taxi popped a tire. My guide…
Teaching Decolonization Resources
Central to the plot of Gillo Pontecorvo’s gripping docudrama The Battle of Algiers (1966) are three Algerian women—Djamila, Zohra, and…
AHA Member Spotlight: Sean Farrell
Sean Farrell is associate professor of history at Northern Illinois University. Sean lives in Sycamore, Illinois, and has been a…
Townhouse Notes: Empiricism Meets Its Match! (Or Does It?)
In May three historians calling themselves the Wild On Collective caused a minor stir with a manifesto titled “Theses on…
Class Warfare
In late May, College Board decided to completely reshape its AP World History (APWH) course. Announced with little fanfare, the…
Cultivating Mentoring Relationships in Grad School
Mentoring relationships in graduate school—be it a master’s or a doctoral program—are critical for success and yet are often difficult…
AHA Member Spotlight: Mitra Sharafi
Mitra Sharafi is a professor of law and legal studies, with a history affiliation, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She…
Classroom Goals
In June the (men’s) World Cup began. Soccer, the world’s most popular sport, is rich with history and closely entwined…
From the Nation’s Capital, on the Fifth of July
I grew up marching in a traditional Fourth of July parade, replete with a reading of the Declaration of Independence,…
Fishing for Loan Sharks
“I was looking to borrow $500, so I filled out the online forms,” explained Walter Archer, a truck driver and…
Teaching Career Diversity through Informational Interviews
“But I don’t like talking to living people! Can’t I just research careers online?” More than a few appalled reactions…
AHA Member Spotlight: Daniel Brückenhaus
Daniel Brückenhaus is an assistant professor of history at Beloit College. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and has been a…
AHA Member Spotlight: Beth Linker
Beth Linker is an associate professor in the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She…
Storming through Research
On May 30, 2018, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the aftermath of Hurricane María—a category 4 tropical…
Rules of Trade
President Trump’s recent announcement that he intends to impose tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese products is simply…
Second-Class Citizens?
In January 2018, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) revoked the citizenship of Baljinder Singh aka Davinder Singh, a naturalized…
AHA Member Spotlight: Suzanne Sutherland
Suzanne Sutherland is an assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University. She lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and has been a…
Have We Lost Faith in Public Education?
We are at a crossroads in the way we think about American public education. Its basic institutions and purposes are…
Searching for Jobs outside the Academy?
It’s December 2017. I am on the cusp of wrapping this whole graduate student thing up. I need to think…
AHA Member Spotlight: Thomas Conlan
Thomas Conlan is a professor at Princeton University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and has been a member since…
Trash to Treasure
“This room looks like an episode of Hoarders.” This was the only response I could manage as I surveyed the…
AHA Member Spotlight: Martine Jean
Martine Jean is a visiting fellow at the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations at Harvard University. Website: https://martinejean.academia.edu Alma…
Misdirected Rage
To many people, “extremist Buddhist” seems to be an oxymoron; indeed, Western stereotypes often paint Buddhism as uniquely immune to…
RIP to the Liberal Order
The June 12 summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un was a historic moment—for the first time a sitting…
AHA Member Spotlight: Claudio Saunt
Claudio Saunt is the Richard B. Russell Professor of History and department head at the University of Georgia. He lives…
Decolonizing the US History Survey
Every summer I reflect on the previous year’s courses and think about how I could improve both their content and…
AHA Member Spotlight: Olivia Weisser
Olivia Weisser is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has been…
AHA Member Spotlight: Sarah E. Gardner
Sarah E. Gardner is distinguished professor of History at Mercer University. She lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and has been a…
Strike Pedagogy
On March 2017, protests erupted at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (UPR-RP) campus. In what became known as…