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Who Are Those Guys? S. Paul O’Hara’s Inventing the Pinkertons
Elizabeth Elliott | Oct 17, 2016
In the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the titular characters are pursued incessantly ... -
Linking In: How Historians Are Fighting Wikipedia's Biases
Sadie Bergen | Sep 1, 2016
If you’d visited Josephine Diebitsch Peary’s Wikipedia page before March 2016, you would have learne... -
Preserving Disability Heritage: Gallaudet Inaugurates New Center for Deaf Documentary Studies
Kritika Agarwal | Apr 12, 2016
In the 1960s, NASA conducted an experiment that involved housing a group of men in a room built on t... -
ORCID Blooms: How Unique Identification Numbers Can Aid Research and Discovery
Seth Denbo | Apr 12, 2016
In the final decade of the second millennium, I embarked on my first major research explorations. Re... -
Wall Street's First Black Millionaire: Shane White's Prince of Darkness
Elizabeth Elliott | Mar 1, 2016
On February 27, 1828, 20-year-old Jeremiah Hamilton arrived secretly at Port-au-Prince Harbor, Haiti... -
AHA Issues Best Practices Statement Regarding Dual Enrollment/Concurrent Enrollment
AHA Staff | Mar 1, 2016
The AHA Council recently approved a statement regarding best practices in dual enrollment/concurrent... -
Advocacy Briefs
AHA Staff | Mar 1, 2016
In February, AHA president Patrick Manning signed a letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turk... -
New Data Show Large Drop in History Bachelor's Degrees
Julia Brookins | Mar 1, 2016
New data from the National Center for Education Statistics show a dramatic decline in the number of ... -
The Troubled Academic Job Market for History
Robert B. Townsend and Julia Brookins | Feb 5, 2016
The academic job market in history remains quite challenging for recent PhDs, and evidence from the ... -
Scholars on the Edge
Allison Miller | Feb 1, 2016
Last June, LGBTQ people and their allies greeted the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges—...
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