Historians and the Public
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When the AHA Takes a Public Stance
Mary Beth Norton | Mar 9, 2018
During my year as president-elect, I became involved in the AHA’s taking public positions three time... -
Humanities Funding and the Proposed Federal Budget
James Grossman | Mar 9, 2018
Last month President Donald Trump released his Presidential Budget Request for federal fiscal year (... -
Past Tense
James Grossman | Feb 16, 2018
As I walk to work in the morning, the first thing I see as I head toward the AHA office is the US Ca... -
A Difficult Past: Interpreting Slavery at Presidential Plantations
Zoë Jackson | Feb 16, 2018
In 2016, excavations at Highland—the Charlottesville, Virginia, home of President James Monroe—led t... -
No Time Like the Present
Eladio Bobadilla | Photographs by Marc Monaghan | Feb 5, 2018
Almost a year after Donald Trump’s inauguration, historians gathered in Washington, DC, just two mil... -
Past Tense: History and Its Abuses in Washington
James Grossman | Jan 25, 2018
As I walk to work in the morning, the first thing I see as I head toward the AHA office is the US Ca... -
Townhouse Notes: Complicating Ourselves into Obscurity
Allison Miller | Nov 1, 2017
I devoted one of my earliest Perspectives columns to the historian’s store of clichés. One was “we m... -
History, Historians, and “the Current Moment”
James Grossman | Nov 1, 2017
I recently had the privilege of participating in a conversation about “the current moment” in social... -
Made by History: A New Blog for Engaging the Public
Zoe Jackson | Aug 10, 2017
“In order to make history, we first have to understand how history has made us,” reads the introduction to Made... -
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Historians as Expert Witnesses
Kritika Agarwal | Feb 1, 2017
Kritika Agarwal investigates historians' participation as expert witnesses in voting rights cases.
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