• Broadening Horizons

  AHA Today

  Misha Appeltova, Zach Nacev, and Gregory Valdespino | May 3, 2018

  We stopped in front of a painting portraying a group of villagers by a river. “What do you see?” asked Elsie Hector Hernandez, owner and director of t...
• A Difficult Past: Interpreting Slavery at Presidential Plantations

  News

  Zoë Jackson | Feb 16, 2018

  In 2016, excavations at Highland—the Charlottesville, Virginia, home of President James Monroe—led to a discovery that would completely reshape interp...
• Reckoning with Colonial History

  Perspectives on Culture

  Steve Hochstadt | Oct 1, 2017

  Berlin could be called the city of painful memory. The admirable willingness of the Germans to take public responsibility for the traumas they caused ...
• Liberty’s Legacies

  AHA Today

  Anna Leigh Todd | Jun 29, 2017

  In 1818, John Adams reflected on the founding of the nation, asking, “But what do We mean by the American Revolution? Do We mean the American War?” Hi...

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• A Flag, a Dinner Bell, and a Hand-Dug Well

  Michelle M. Martin | Mar 8, 2017

  When I began my directorship of the Little House on the Prairie Museum south of Independence, Kansas, the promise and...
• African American History: Of Dreams and Struggles

  Guest Blogger | Jun 20, 2016

  By Adam Green “Do everything!” That was the exhortation from Nell Painter that closed the Future of the African American Past...
• Who’s Afraid of Being a Generalist? On Being a Historian outside the Academy

  Guest Blogger | Jun 14, 2016

  By Rachel FeinmarkAfter two years of endless academic job applications, Skype interviews, and harrowing job talks, I was exhausted from...
• AHA Sends Letter of Concern Regarding Poland’s Museum of the Second World War

  American Historical Association | May 25, 2016

  The AHA has sent a letter to Poland’s Minister of Culture expressing concern about the proposal to disrupt the planned...
• Introducing America in 20 Minutes: The Smithsonian’s New Film on the Nation’s History

  Amanda Moniz | May 12, 2016

  How do you condense hundreds of years of American history into 20 minutes? This was the challenge fa...

 

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