Perspectives Summer Columns | Perspectives on History

What’s Next for Blogging as Public Engagement?

Bobby Cervantes | Jul 28, 2021

Bobby Cervantes reflects on the flourishing history blogs that are connecting academic historians to public audiences.

Can Plants Help Us to Understand COVID-19?

Matthew Plishka | Jul 12, 2021

Many of the same mistakes and oversights that we see in human disease control today were made in the early 20th-century fight against Panama Disease.

What Story Do You Want to Tell?

Hayley R. Bowman | Jul 8, 2021

Shifting from "Who will care?" to "What's the story?" helped one graduate student center storytelling in her work.

You Are Only as Good as Your Sources

Bobby Cervantes | Jul 6, 2021

Journalists and historians share a fixation on sources, but how and when they use a source differs in important ways.

Meet the 2021 Perspectives Daily Summer Columnists

Laura Ansley | Jun 7, 2021

Introducing the three graduate students who will write about narrative and podcasts, the relationship between history and journalism, and the history of plant disease.

Want to Write for the AHA?

AHA Staff | Mar 22, 2021

The deadline has been extended to Sunday, May 2, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. EDT.A key skill for historians—...

Narratives and Counternarratives

Allison Robinson | Dec 3, 2020

Allison Robinson designed a project to help develop students' digital history skills.

A Threat from the East?

Leah Valtin-Erwin | Oct 29, 2020

Several complex historical legacies underpin the rush to compare today's pandemic shopping experience to shortages in late communist eastern Europe.

Shape the Future . . . of History?

Rachel Basinger | Sep 25, 2020

Future historians could benefit from advocacy now for a longer census.

Building Archives, Training Scholars

Allison Robinson | Sep 3, 2020

Working with two digital history projects during her MA studies taught Allison Robinson the value of digital work.