• Townhouse Notes: Meritocracy and the Job Application Arms Race

  From the Editor

  Allison Miller | Mar 11, 2019

  What’s behind the exceedingly onerous requirements for materials from academic job applicants?
• Academic Activists

  Features

  Sasha Turner, Barbara Molony, and Sandra Trudgen Dawson | Mar 11, 2019

  The story of historians who came together in 1969 to press for greater inclusion of women in the AHA—and those who carry on their work.
• Starting from Scratch

  From the President

  John R. McNeill | Mar 11, 2019

  If you’re asked to prepare a course on an unfamiliar subject, be honest with your students. And start cramming.
• Plan S and the Humanities

  News

  Seth Denbo | Mar 11, 2019

  Plan S is pushing academic journal publishing to an open access model. But is that good for all scholarship?

Most Recent

• Confronting the Paradox of Expertise

  David A. Gerber | Feb 25, 2019

  Can too much knowledge make you a worse teacher? Some historians feel this way.
• Redefining Success

  Matt Villeneuve | Feb 20, 2019

  Career diversity is not about seeking alternatives to the professoriate; it’s about helping students find success in diverse careers.
• Online Education 2.0

  Zoë Jackson | Feb 11, 2019

  Online courses are no longer a futurist fantasy or a harbinger of doom. But where are they going?
• The Making of the Graduate Working Class

  Jeff Schuhrke | Jan 29, 2019

  An AHA19 panel brought together graduate activists for a discussion on challenges to unionization in universities.
• The 2019 AHA Jobs Report

  Dylan Ruediger | Jan 28, 2019

  The number of academic job listings changed little from last year. But that’s just scratching the surface.

 

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