The AHA welcomes five new staff members.

Henry F. Graff, who was associated with the Columbia University Department of History for more than 75 years, died of COVID-19 on April 7, 2020, at the age of 98.

Richard Gilder, an investor and philanthropist who promoted historical study to people of all ages, died on May 12, 2020, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Paul A. C. Koistinen, historian of the political economy of American warfare, died on January 25, 2020, at the age of 86.

Virtual AHA is a series of online opportunities to bring together communities of historians, build professional relationships, discuss scholarship, and engage in professional and career development.

Historians can read plenty of pointed lessons in the presidential election of 1800, a surprisingly uncivil brawl between two aging revolutionaries.

The October issue of the AHR features four research articles, a lively AHR Exchange, a roundtable review of a new book on digital research, and a History Unclassified essay on sex and food.

Future historians could benefit from advocacy now for a longer census.

A senior historian reflects on how living through this moment of crisis spurred him to rethink the notion of events and their relationship to collective consciousness.

Everything has a history, including the pith helmet.