From their wood to their fruit, peach trees form a powerful guard against evil in Chinese folklore.

A large increase in the number of academic jobs listings conceals deeper structural problems.

The 136th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held Thursday through Sunday, January 5–8, 2023, in Philadelphia.

Read about the 2022–23 recipients of the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History, the Fellowship in Aerospace History, and the Fellowship in the History of Space Technology.

The AHA welcomes four new staff members: Tammy Hancock, Lizzy Meggyesy, Sarah Muncy, and Jake Purcell.

Presidential sessions focus conversations on topics of the president’s choice, and in New Orleans Jacqueline Jones wanted to talk about storytelling.

The Lincoln Forum is now accepting applications for the Franklin-Medford Scholarship. 

What is actually being taught in US history classrooms?

When historians concede to discuss the past with the terms of the present, they abandon the skill set that makes them historians.

If you find out that you are not the center of the universe, keep working at it until you are.