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Announcing the 2020–21 Jameson and NASA Fellows
The AHA is pleased to announce its 2020–21 fellows for the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History and the…
Remote Reflections: Learning in the Time of Corona
In early March, as news of the COVID-19 pandemic became the insistent theme of every news feed and conversation, Bergen…
AHA Member Spotlight: Eric Garcia McKinley
Eric Garcia McKinley is a consultant for media organizations and media funders at The Impact Architects. He lives in Rochester,…
School without Schools
As the COVID-19 pandemic forced educators throughout the nation into an abrupt transition to remote education, I lamented to my…
Peer-to-Peer Research Exchange
“I have 5GB of stuff from the Reagan Library,” said graduate student Varsha Venkatasubramanian (Univ. of California, Berkeley). “I’m not…
AHA Member Spotlight: Rachel Cheng
Rachel Cheng is the associate director of mission advancement at the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose. Rachel lives in…
Defund the Police
A slogan can be a powerful statement, whether chanted during a protest or used as a campaign’s guiding principle. Over…
Planning for the Future
Colleges and universities across the nation have closed their doors. Most have shifted to online learning as in-person public programs…
Meet the 2020 Perspectives Daily Summer Columnists
The AHA is pleased to announce this year’s summer columnists. The 2020 contest received over 70 applications, nearly double the…
Remote Reflections: A Call for Memes
When I graduated with my BA in history from the University of Oklahoma 16 years ago, I didn’t know a…
AHA Member Spotlight: William King
William King is professor emeritus of Afroamerican studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He lives in Lafayette, Colorado, and…
BleachMan Says, “Clean It with Bleach!”
Messaging from the Oval Office, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health agencies…
The COVID Commencement
Virtual congratulations are in order. This spring, thousands of history students completed their bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees under unusual…
From a BA to the AHA
“But what are you going to do with that?” is the all-too-familiar question that most history majors will hear at…
Archiving a Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID-19 (JOTPY) is a crowdsourced digital public archive chronicling daily life…
Public Service versus Business
“There is no Democratic or Republican way of delivering the mail,” proclaimed President Richard Nixon to Congress on May 27, 1969.…
AHA Member Spotlight: E. Natalie Rothman
E. Natalie Rothman is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. She lives in Toronto, Canada, and has been…
Productivity Moves with Our Bodies
Research topics come to us in different and unexpected ways; without much warning, they shift our methods, questions, and sources.…
Remote Reflections: Chair of the Apocalypse
As I reflect back just a few short months ago to March, I am amazed at how quickly everything changed…
AHA Member Spotlight: Tula Connell
Tula Connell is a senior communications officer. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, and has been a member since 2013.…
Creating Community in Your Department
The AHA’s Career Diversity for Historians initiative is leading a national conversation to better align the purpose of doctoral education…
Sanctuary or Battlefield?
During a truly dispiriting news cycle, it was easy this spring to overlook NASA’s successful launch of two American astronauts…
AHA Member Spotlight: Dean F. Oliver
Dean F. Oliver is a senior director of research and chief curator at the Canadian Museum of History. He lives…
Creating Connections to Your University and Community
The AHA’s Career Diversity for Historians initiative is leading a national conversation to better align the purpose of doctoral education…
Remote Reflections: Mental Health during Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has put historians in an uncomfortable position. We are used to researching and chronicling major historical events,…
Remote Reflections: One Class, 55 Classrooms
On March 13, I watched as the national news reported that many schools in the United States were beginning to…
Including Pedagogy in Graduate Education
The AHA’s Career Diversity for Historians initiative is leading a national conversation to better align the purpose of doctoral education…
Counting on the Census
Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a two-part column. The second installment can be found here. The US…
AHA Member Spotlight: Siegfried H. Sutterlin
Siegfried H. Sutterlin is a former senior Fulbright scholar in Europe and retired historian, having been professionally associated with seven…
Internships for Graduate Students
The AHA’s Career Diversity for Historians initiative is leading a national conversation to better align the purpose of doctoral education…
Named for the Enemy
As a newly commissioned second lieutenant, I reported to my first duty station at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, named for…
A Monument to Black Resistance and Strength
In the weeks after the murder of George Floyd sparked a global movement for racial justice, protesters toppled monuments honoring…
Setting the Lost Cause on Fire
Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020, Black Lives Matter protests erupted…
Alumni Involvement in Graduate Education
The AHA’s Career Diversity for Historians initiative is leading a national conversation to better align the purpose of doctoral education…
AHA Member Spotlight: Rosina Lozano
Rosina Lozano is an associate professor at Princeton University. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and has been a member…
Pooling Resources during the Pandemic
As the pandemic triggered the sudden transition to remote teaching in spring 2020, professor Ada Palmer’s (Univ. of Chicago) inbox…
The Purpose of a History PhD
The AHA’s Career Diversity for Historians initiative is leading a national conversation to better align the purpose of doctoral education…
Remote Reflections: Being a Graduate Teaching Assistant during the Pandemic
When COVID-19 began to spread in the United States, universities moved to online instruction to protect their students, employees, and…