• Playing with the Past

  Features

  Patrick Rael | Oct 13, 2021

  Board games encourage history students to imagine changing historical outcomes and discuss counterfactuality and contingency, while covering the entire range of Bloom's taxonomy of learning.
• Crisis and Opportunity

  AHA Activities, From the Executive Director

  James Grossman and Dana Schaffer | Oct 5, 2021

  A recently awarded NEH grant will enable the AHA to support dozens of small history-related organizations.
• A Year Characterized by Pivoting and Adapting

  Perspectives Daily

  Alexandra F. Levy | Sep 21, 2021

  The 2020 HAC report documents the progress made by the Office of the Historian of the State Department during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• A Snapshot of the Public’s Views on History

  AHA Activities

  Pete Burkholder and Dana Schaffer | Aug 30, 2021

  A national survey conducted by the AHA and Fairleigh Dickinson University looked to update our understanding of how Americans understand the past.

Most Recent

• From Water and Radicalism to Archival Friendships

  Mark Philip Bradley | Aug 25, 2021

  The September issue of the American Historical Review showcases the chronological, methodological, and spatial reach that has become a hallmark...
• Grant of the Week: Turning Points in History Grant

  Alana Venable | Aug 6, 2021

  The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University is now accepting submissions for the Turning Points in History Grant.  
• 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.
• Public History in the Wild

  Rebecca S. Wingo and Lindsey Passenger Wieck | Jul 26, 2021

  When two historians swapped a syllabus over multiple semesters, it improved both the assignments and student experience.
• Linda Hunter Rowe (1945–2020)

  Cathleene B. Hellier | Jul 19, 2021

  Linda Hunter Rowe, a historian for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation who retired in 2017 after 50 years of service, died on October 23, 2020.

 

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