Jeffrey Cox, a historian of Britain and religion, died on February 9, 2020.

Frank A. Kafker died in Dedham, Massachusetts, on April 1, 2020, from complications associated with Parkinson's disease.

Richard Polenberg, historian of modern America, died on November 26, 2020, in Ithaca, New York.

The AHA Council has been busy. Find out what it was up to in the second half of 2020. 

Faye E. Dudden, Charles A. Dana Professor of History emerita, passed away on October 16, 2020, after an 18-month struggle with glioblastoma.

R. Isabela Morales is a manager of exhibition development at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. She lives in Newark, New Jersey, and has been a member since 2014.

On January 8, 2021, the AHA council approved this statement.

During the uncertainty of a global pandemic, a tumultuous election cycle, and increasing scrutiny of historians and their efforts, the AHA remains committed to advocating for historians, their invaluable work, and its centrality to the understanding of current events.

A hand-illustrated envelope connected one budding historian to her mother and Eleanor Roosevelt's legacy.

The AHA has begun an initiative to document and reckon with the Association's role in the dissemination and legitimation of racist historical scholarship that has had deep and lasting influence on public culture.