Rebecca Simon is an adjunct professor at Santa Monica College. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and has been a member since 2015.

Two graduate students write about how their friendship helped them through their PhD program.

Teaching the Middle Ages in the modern southern United States requires that we help students reexamine their ideas about the past in light of scholarship and shake off antiquated ideas that reflect neither historical realities nor who we are in the 21st century.

The 2020 HAC report documents the progress made by the Office of the Historian of the State Department during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the 160 years since a Congressional request led to the Foreign Relations of the United States series, the project’s mandate, staffing, and production has changed immensely.

The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or one-semester residential fellowships. 

A Fulbright year in Ghana enabled one historian to balance her research life with her family life, living and learning about the country that was both her subject and homeland. 

The AHA and the OAH have joined Learn from History, a coalition opposing efforts that would limit the ability of educators to maintain the scholarly integrity of courses in US history.

Mastering a skill is at the heart of the specifications grading system.

Read about the 2021-22 recipients of the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History, the Fellowship in Aerospace History, and the Fellowship in the History of Space Technology.