Looking Like a Historian | #aha16

Taking its cue from the Twitter hashtag #ILookLikeAProfessor, trending in summer 2015, our February cover celebrates the many looks of historians of 2016. With the kind endorsement of hashtag originator Sara Pritchard, as well as Rusul Alrubail, Adeline Koh, and Michelle Moravec (who gave it significant boosts), we present our take on the idea. So treat yourself to Vanessa Holden’s fashion roundup, and see you next year in Denver. Photographs by Marc Monaghan.

Staff

Allison Miller, editor
Stephanie Kingsley, associate editor, web content and social media
Kritika Agarwal, associate editor, publications
Sadie Bergen, editorial assistant
Liz Townsend, coordinator, data administration and integrity

Featured Articles

Top row, from left: Sarah Williams, Davarian Baldwin, Christine Saidi, Paul Mokrzycki Renfro. Second row: Jason Wolfe, Claire Arcenas, Yoshiya Makita, Tiffany Gill. Third row: Amanda Hall, Jonathan Lurie, Yi Sun, Skye Doney. Bottom row: Lex Jing Lu, Leila Rupp, Ron Johnson, Anne Rees.

February 1, 2016

AHA Annual Meeting

The Natty Professor
Times Square on a rainy day, 1943. John Vachon/FSA/OWI Photograph Collection, Library of Congress

February 1, 2016

AHA Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting Blues
Star trails

February 5, 2016

Features

The Troubled Academic Job Market for History

From the AHA

The AHA Townhouse

February 11, 2016

From the Editor, Townhouse Notes

Townhouse Notes, February 2016
Pencils on yellow background

February 1, 2016

From the Executive Director

Whose Memory? Whose Monuments?
Pencils on yellow background

February 1, 2016

From the President

A Strong and Diverse Historical Profession, a Strong AHA
A very long line of yellow lines at different brightnesses on a black background

February 1, 2016

AHA Activities

Actions by the AHA Council, June 2015–January 2016
The session “The LGBTQ Historians Task Force Report: Where Do We Go from Here?” at the 2016 annual meeting. From left: Mary Louise Roberts, Nicholas L. Syrett, La Shonda Mims, and Leisa D. Meyer. Marc Monaghan

February 1, 2016

AHA Activities

Scholars on the Edge
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February 11, 2016

From the Editor, Perspectives Daily

Postcards from Atlanta
Career Diversity for Historians

February 9, 2016

AHA Activities

Futures of History
Cover of the 2016 February issue of the American Historical Review

February 1, 2016

AHA Activities

In the February 2016 Issue of the American Historical Review
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "A new & correct map of the trading part of the West Indies ." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 28, 2016. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ef42-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

February 2, 2016

AHA Activities

Unsettling US History Courses
18th-century indenture contract, Wikimedia Commons

February 16, 2016

AHA Activities

Transforming the US History Survey with a Focus on Labor in the Atlantic World
Stephanie Young from RAND Corporation conducts an informational interview with a Career Fair attendee. Marc Monaghan

February 1, 2016

AHA Annual Meeting

A Conversational Shift?
Digital History at AHA16

February 22, 2016

AHA Annual Meeting

Browsing Digital History at AHA16
Yale College dean Jonathan Holloway meeting with students during last fall’s protests. At the 2016 annual meeting, Holloway said listening to students was an important skill for administrators. Yale Daily News

February 1, 2016

AHA Annual Meeting

Responding to Resistance
AHA 2020 - New York, NY - January 4, 2020

February 1, 2016

AHA Annual Meeting

Proposed Resolution on Palestinian Right to Education Defeated at AHA Annual Meeting

February 1, 2016

AHA Annual Meeting

Submit a Proposal for the 2017 Annual Meeting

February 10, 2016

AHA Annual Meeting, Perspectives Daily

Gearing Up for AHA17

Other Articles

February 1, 2016

From the National Coalition for History

Federal Funding for History Holds Steady

February 18, 2016

From the National Coalition for History

Urge the House to Fund K–12 History and Civics Education!

February 29, 2016

From the National History Center, Perspectives Daily

The NHC’s Mock Policy Briefing Program in History Classrooms
“Now we see through a glass, darkly,” Udo J. Keppler, 1910. Library of Congress.

February 3, 2016

From the National History Center, Perspectives Daily

Congressional Partisanship in Historical Perspective
Dan River community convenes during a Civil Rights Discussion series held in the summer of 2015 through a partnership with Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, History United and the Pittsylvania County Library System.

February 23, 2016

From the National History Center

Building an Inclusive Community Identity with History
Spotlight on a dark background

February 25, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Edwin J. Perkins
Spotlight on a dark background

February 18, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Mark Dickens
Spotlight on a dark background

February 5, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Christine Adrian
Pen with paper and envelopes

February 1, 2016

Letters to the Editor

On Context and Dual Enrollment
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February 1, 2016

In Memoriam

Richard Greening Hewlett (1923–2015)
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February 1, 2016

In Memoriam

David Higgs (1939–2014)
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February 1, 2016

In Memoriam

Ethan Schmidt (1975–2015)

News

A knight battles a snail in the margins of an English medieval genealogical roll. Decretals of Gregory IX with gloss of Bernard of Parma, c. 1300–c. 1340, Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 107r, British Library Digitized Manuscripts.

February 1, 2016

News

Have a Question about the Past? AskHistorians
US Supreme Court

February 29, 2016

News

The Supreme Court Nomination and the Politics of Checks and Balances

February 24, 2016

News, Perspectives Daily

“Are You on the Job Market?”
Sam Spare at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France

February 1, 2016

News

Silent Heroes
Sam Spare on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France.

February 17, 2016

News, Perspectives Daily

From Carlisle to Normandy
The design concept includes a raised lawn with a central sculpture. World War I Centennial Commission, ww1cc.org/selectee.

February 1, 2016

News, Perspectives Daily

World War One Centennial Commission Unveils Memorial Design