Public History

  • Teaching LGBTQ+ History

    Features

    Anne Gray Fischer | Apr 9, 2024

    As states pass legislation targeting DEI efforts, one historian offers her experience teaching LGBTQ+ history in these challenging times.
  • Toward the 250th

    News

    Sarah Weicksel | Feb 21, 2024

    As the new president of Monticello, historian Jane Kamensky is gearing up for the semiquincentennial of the United States.
  • The Fallen Goddess

    Features

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Dec 14, 2023

    The Goddess of Democracy statue has risen, fallen, and risen again across the globe.
  • Lighting the Way

    Perspectives Daily

    Alex Kershaw | Nov 13, 2023

    What lessons does WWII hold for future generations?

Most Recent

  • Playing Tourist at Home

    Laura Ansley | Nov 1, 2023

    On the National Mall, there is room for all Americans’ stories.
  • The Ross House Slave Quarters

    Gabrielle McCoy | Oct 26, 2023

    Notley Brown and Suck were two of the people enslaved at Ross House in Frederick, Maryland, the site of the...
  • Suellen M. Hoy (1942–2023)

    Ann Durkin Keating | Oct 2, 2023

    Suellen M. Hoy, historian of women's religion and labor, died on May 4, 2023, in Seattle, Washington.
  • (Re)visioning Past and Present

    Natalie D. McDonald | Sep 21, 2023

    Old public art can always spark new conversations.
  • Teaching and Pedagogy

    Mark Philip Bradley | Sep 18, 2023

    The AHR looks at pedagogy, Indigenous histories, revolution, the Cold War, the role of AI in historical practice, and more.
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