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Evaluating without Grading: Encouraging Students to Master Skills with Specifications Grading
Features
Luke Clossey and Esther Souman | Sep 15, 2020
Mastering a skill is at the heart of the specifications grading system.
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Extreme Spaces and New Frontiers: Meet the AHA’s 2021–22 Fellows
AHA Activities
Rebecca L. West | Sep 13, 2021
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.
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The Professor as a Primary Source: 9/11 History and Memory
Perspectives Daily
Julianne Johnson | Sep 9, 2021
In telling students about her experiences on September 11, 2001, Julianne Johnson makes herself the primary source—and demonstrates the interplay of history, testimony, and memory.
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Biography’s Occupational Hazards: Confronting Your Subject as Both Person and Persona
From the President
Jacqueline Jones | Sep 8, 2021
As a biographer, Jacqueline Jones found herself wondering how she should deal with aspects of her subject's life that left her baffled, even mystified.
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AHA Member Spotlight: Victor M. Uribe-Uran
Matthew Keough | Sep 10, 2021
Victor M. Uribe-Uran is a professor of history and law and chair of the history department at Florida International University.
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Townhouse Notes
Ashley E. Bowen and Olivia Ricche | Sep 7, 2021
The Perspectives author pool is slightly more diverse than the AHA's membership, but content skews to covering the United States, current events, and public history.
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Grant of the Week: Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
Alana Venable | Sep 3, 2021
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute is is now accepting applications for the Radcliffe Fellowship.
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Professional Practice and Effort Rewarded
Kevin Diestelow | Sep 1, 2021
Should undergraduate students attend the AHA annual meeting? One attendee emphatically says yes.
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On to New Orleans
Debbie Ann Doyle | Aug 31, 2021
The 135th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held Thursday through Sunday, January 6-9, 2022, in New Orleans.