Special Online Edition

Maurice Prendergast’s Mer d’Opale (Opal Sea), which he painted between between 1907 and 1910. Credit: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

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Staff

Allen Mikaelian, editor
Shatha Almutawa, associate editor

Featured Articles

A sunset over a city.

July 22, 2014

Viewpoints

A Little Spying between Friends
Photo Credit: American Life League. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

July 3, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Roundtable: Historians Weigh in on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
Photo Credit: American Life League. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

July 23, 2014

Birth Control and Hobby Lobby
Photo Credit: American Life League. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

July 3, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Cultural Divisions Take Center Stage
Photo Credit: American Life League. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

July 3, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

“We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident, That All Corporations Are Created Equal”
Photo Credit: American Life League. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

July 3, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Property v. Liberty
"The truth shall make you free." Bible quotation in the CIA's main lobby.

August 5, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

AHA Roundtable: National Security Archive v. Central Intelligence Agency
"The truth shall make you free." Bible quotation in the CIA's main lobby.

August 4, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

CIA’s Draft History of the Bay of Pigs
"The truth shall make you free." Bible quotation in the CIA's main lobby.

August 4, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Black Holes in the Predecisional Universe
"The truth shall make you free." Bible quotation in the CIA's main lobby.

August 4, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Cuban Memory Wars

From the AHA

June 2014 Issue

July 9, 2014

AHA Activities

What’s in the June 2014 AHR?
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July 24, 2014

AHA Activities

Interfolio ByCommittee for AHA Members
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July 7, 2014

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

The AHA Responds to the Relocation of the National Archives for Black Women’s History

August 21, 2014

Perspectives Daily

AHA Statement of Support for Revised Framework for Advanced Placement U.S. History

Other Articles

June 11, 2014

From the National History Center, Perspectives Daily

Overseeing Intelligence
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August 11, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Two AHA Members Win Prizes from William and Mary Quarterly for Distinguished Articles
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June 9, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Historians Named Among 2014 American Academy in Berlin and ACLS Fellows
David Brion Davis

July 24, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Historians Named among 2013 National Humanities Medalists
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June 25, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Sam White
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June 18, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Michael B. Kahan
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June 11, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Stephen A. Berrey
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June 4, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Lucy Chester
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July 30, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Daniel Vivian
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July 23, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Sandy Hyatt
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July 16, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Kimberley Reilly
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July 9, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Yuen-Gen Liang
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July 2, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Michael A. Ryan
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August 27, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Ellen Griffith Spears
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August 20, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Christopher R. Friedrichs
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August 13, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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August 6, 2014

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Ryan E. Messenger

July 2, 2014

News

Teaching Undergraduates: A Conversation in Brooklyn
Thin lines of light in green, blue, and yellow in a curved shape against the night sky.

June 5, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Historians and the Potential Consequences of the “Right to be Forgotten” Ruling
Magnificent Century Still

July 29, 2014

Features

Magnificent Century: Historical Turkish Soap Opera Finds a Global Audience

July 17, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Tuning and Teaching History as an Ethical Way of Being in the World

July 16, 2014

Perspectives Daily

House Committee Supports the Humanities (after a little nudge)
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July 15, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

2014 NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
Charles Stuart Kennedy Jr.

July 8, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Creator of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection Receives American Diplomacy Award
Senators Strom Thumond of South Carolina and Richard Russell of Georgia opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. credit: U.S. Senate Historical Office

July 2, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Writing the “Rough Draft”: Veteran Journalists Discuss the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

August 19, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Action Needed: Support the Durbin Bill to Expand Student Loan Forgiveness Program to Adjunct Faculty

August 18, 2014

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Help Us Update Our Taxonomy of the Discipline

August 12, 2014

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

Repairs in Progress

News

Khan Sahib M. Shirazi. The Complete Works of Sanā‘ī Ghaznavī. Bombay: Burgess Press, 1910. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (034.00.00)

August 13, 2014

News

A History of the Persian Language at the Exhibit A Thousand Years of the Persian Book

June 23, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

The Buddha Born and Reborn in Western Imagination
Early exchange in the Pacific: A Maori bartering a crayfish with an English naval officer [ascribed to Tupaia], 1769, from Drawings illustrative of Captain Cook’s First Voyage, 1768–1771. ©The British Library Board

June 17, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

A History of Globalization and Modernism in New Zealand’s Architecture Pavilion
Blue Souk Visit, 1984. Courtesy Khaled Hadi Bin Sumaidaa

June 10, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

History and Modernity in the Arabian Peninsula
Office Complex of Ministries. Photo: BIAD

June 2, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

China’s Encounter with Modernity, 1914–2014
LBJ with a little boy and a basket of puppies.

June 27, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: President Johnson and a Basket of Puppies
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June 20, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: GOP National Convention (1916)
Tommies play football with a gas masks

June 13, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Goooaaaaaaaaaaaal!
Two-men-carrying-a-woman

June 6, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: A Helping Hand
two astronauts holding Soviet space food

July 25, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Mind over Matter in a World of Dull Space Foods
WWI soldiers dancing and celebrating

July 18, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Can Cancan!
Cowboy Joe in his steed

August 29, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Supersonic Cowboy Joe
White House renovation, 1950

August 22, 2014

News, Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: The Shell of the White House During 1950 Renovation
Model of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, 1936

August 15, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: WPA Dinosaur Park
Newsboys and newsgirl. Getting afternoon papers. New York City, July 1910

August 8, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Carrying the Banner
Humor Postcard, Potato; Humor Postcard, Corn

August 1, 2014

Perspectives Daily

Flashback Friday: Everything Is Bigger In Texas