Social History

  • AHA Member Spotlight: Jessica Ann Sheetz-Nguyen

    AHA Staff | Jul 18, 2023

    Jessica Ann Sheetz-Nguyen is an adjunct professor of history at the University of Maryland Global Campus and professor emeritaat the...
  • The Slaughterhouse Accountant

    Michael Trotti | May 11, 2023

    What does it mean for a historian to write about death in the midst of a pandemic?
  • Staughton Lynd (1929–2022)

    Carl Mirra | Apr 28, 2023

    Legendary activist, historian, and labor lawyer Staughton Lynd died on November 17, 2022, from multiple organ failure.
  • Thinking Machines

    E. Thomas Ewing, Landon Downer, Patrick Luppino, and Victor Mukora | Apr 10, 2023

    How do you teach the history of computing in the age of artificial intelligence?
  • István Deák (1926–2023)

    Dominique Kirchner Reill | Mar 30, 2023

    Historian István Deák died on January 9, 2023.
  • Trading on Justice

    Mark Philip Bradley | Feb 22, 2023

    The latest AHR issue includes slavery and reparations, histories of the 19th century, and new approaches to transnational history.
  • W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)

    David Levering Lewis | Dec 6, 2022

    This Long Overdue tribute honors historian W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on August 27, 1963.
  • Richard Herr (1922–2022)

    Martin Jay and Paula Fass | Nov 30, 2022

    Richard Herr, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, died on May 29, 2022.
  • Elizabeth York Enstam (1937–2022)

    Michael V. Hazel | Nov 30, 2022

    Elizabeth York Enstam died September 15, 2022, in Dallas, Texas, where she had lived for the past 54 years.
  • The Age of Planetary Revolution

    Carl Abbott | Nov 14, 2022

    Nothing dates our vision of the future like how we remember the past.

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