• A Farewell to the Model Minority Myth

  Perspectives Daily

  Shuko Tamao | May 6, 2021

  In the wake of recent violence, historian Shuko Tamao reflects on how racism against Asian American and Pacific Islanders impacts students and faculty in academia.
• Feeling Like an Interloper, But Claiming Space Anyway

  Features

  Trishula Patel | Mar 4, 2021

  Minority graduate students in history programs often find themselves to be the "only one in the room."
• Diversity Demands Struggle

  Features

  David A. Varel | Jan 26, 2021

  Lawrence Reddick, an important figure in Black history during the mid-20th century, fought to center the work and perspectives of Black historians.
• The Value of Representation

  AHA Activities

  Sarah Fenton | Nov 16, 2020

  The AHA has completed a grant-funded project to investigate how to better serve historians at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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• Women Historians in Academia

  Patricia Albjerg Graham | Nov 13, 2020

  Fifty years after the 1970 Rose Report, Patricia Albjerg Graham reflects on the need for the Committee on the Status...
• Townhouse Notes

  Ashley E. Bowen | Sep 8, 2020

  Perspectives is making a new effort to represent the diversity of the historical discipline.
• A More Inclusive Discipline

  Seth Denbo | Mar 13, 2020

  Recent reports from the Royal Historical Society in the UK have led to increased efforts to make history departments more diverse and more welcoming.
• Townhouse Notes

  Allison Miller | Nov 12, 2019

  Historians in higher education can't afford to lose anyone's interest. But how hard are we working to expand our appeal? 
• Archives and the Road to Accessibility

  Angela Gallagher | Jul 15, 2019

  Much historical research requires visits to archives. An inclusive discipline will seek to expand accommodation of disabilities, for everyone's benefit. 

 

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