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Ashley E. Bowen, editor
Laura Ansley, managing editor
Karen Lou, editorial assistant
Alana Venable, research and publications assistant
Alexandra F. Levy, digital communications coordinator
Liz Townsend, manager, data administration and integrity

Other Articles

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June 7, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Meet the 2021 Perspectives Daily Summer Columnists
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June 8, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Thomas Figueira
Museums

June 9, 2021

Perspectives Daily

History Museums Are Vibrant Civic Spaces
A new report from Ithaka S+R found that history instructors need to collaborate with librarians, archivists, and publishers to help students master the skills required to find and use primary sources.

June 14, 2021

Perspectives Daily

From Reading to Discovery
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June 15, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Donald L. Fixico
Juneteenth celebrations, like this 1980 event in Seattle, are sacred spaces and should be honored accordingly.

June 22, 2021

Perspectives Daily

A Juneteenth Dilemma
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June 29, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Bruce Bennett
A mural depicting Fred Hampton, subject of the film Judas and the Black Messiah, photographed in Chicago in 1989.

June 30, 2021

Perspectives Daily

History Lessons on Film
After a career in journalism, PhD candidate  asked many questions about the nature of sources in his coursework, teaching, and writing.

July 6, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

You Are Only as Good as Your Sources
In telling Spanish abbess Sor María de Jesús’s story on a podcast,  learned about how to bring narrative into her dissertation.

July 8, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

What Story Do You Want to Tell?
Panama Disease is a wilting disease impacting bananas that is caused by a soil-borne fungal pathogen.

July 12, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

Can Plants Help Us to Understand COVID-19?
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July 13, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Damayanthie Eluwawalage
Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Self-Portrait Etching at a Window,” 1648.

July 13, 2021

Perspectives Daily

Autobiography with Scholarly Trimmings
While in Finland, ’s husband wrote an article about “following your Fulbrighter” for the Fulbright Center News.

July 19, 2021

Perspectives Daily

Navigating Life from Scratch
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July 20, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Mark L. Howe
The 1940 Tokyo Summer Olympics are sometimes referred to as the “Phantom Olympics” in Japan.

July 21, 2021

Perspectives Daily

The Phantom Olympics
Drawing of a machine called the Label O Matic, with the word complexity going into the machine and the words “50-100 words,” coming out. The sentence, “I turn complicated ideas into tiny chunks of text,” is above the machine.

July 26, 2021

Perspectives Daily

Public History in the Wild
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July 27, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Barbara L. Tischler
Blocks with the letters B L O G, in front of a fountain pen.

July 28, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

What’s Next for Blogging as Public Engagement?
Woodcut image of a village, with several buildings. In the street, a man is surrounded by about a dozen people. Two people look onto the scene from a window above.

July 29, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

A Glimpse Behind the Curtain
A color photograph of the interior of a greenhouse. Small green sprouts are in the foreground and white plastic roofing is visible in the background.

August 5, 2021

Perspectives Daily, Perspectives Summer Columns

We Are Part of Nature
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August 13, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Luca de Caprariis
Hand-cyclists competing at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia.

August 23, 2021

Perspectives Daily

Paralympic Pioneer
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August 27, 2021

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Samuel Yamashita