• Townhouse Notes: Meritocracy and the Job Application Arms Race

  From the Editor

  Allison Miller | Mar 11, 2019

  What’s behind the exceedingly onerous requirements for materials from academic job applicants?
• Academic Activists

  Features

  Sasha Turner, Barbara Molony, and Sandra Trudgen Dawson | Mar 11, 2019

  The story of historians who came together in 1969 to press for greater inclusion of women in the AHA—and those who carry on their work.
• Redefining Success

  Perspectives Daily

  Matt Villeneuve | Feb 20, 2019

  Career diversity is not about seeking alternatives to the professoriate; it’s about helping students find success in diverse careers.
• The 2019 AHA Jobs Report

  Features

  Dylan Ruediger | Jan 28, 2019

  The number of academic job listings changed little from last year. But that’s just scratching the surface.

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• On the October 2018 Townhouse Notes

  Patricia Albjerg Graham | Jan 11, 2019

  To the editor:I was both surprised and pleased to see “Townhouse Notes: Reading the Rose Report in 2...
• What I Wish I’d Known Then

  John R. McNeill | Jan 11, 2019

  The fear of asking for help can hold you back.
• The Way Forward on Graduate Advising

  Amanda Bosworth | Jan 5, 2019

  Faculty-centered advising is often more concerned with legacy-building than on training students. Change is needed.
• On "Every Historian Counts"

  Philip Benedict | Dec 3, 2018

  To the editor:Speaking of surprise, as a longtime reader of Perspectives I was surprised when I read...
• Townhouse Notes: Women Historians Speak from the AHA Archive

  Allison Miller | Nov 1, 2018

  Unprocessed documents from the 1980s reveal feminist historians’ frustrations with sexism in the discipline.

 

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