• Teach Your Family

  Features

  Rachel Mesch, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, and Annette Joseph-Gabriel | Oct 14, 2021

  A pandemic-inspired twist on class presentations, Teach Your Family asks students to think not only about conveying information but also...
• 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.
• Common Schooling and the Common Good

  From the President

  Jacqueline Jones | Oct 12, 2021

  Public schools are an essential part of American society, with a long history.
• Bowling Together

  Perspectives Daily

  Joseph R. Stuart and Jeffrey J. Turner | Sep 23, 2021

  Two graduate students write about how their friendship helped them through their PhD program.

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• Evaluating without Grading

  Luke Clossey and Esther Souman | Sep 14, 2021

  Mastering a skill is at the heart of the specifications grading system.
• The Professor as a Primary Source

  Julianne Johnson | Sep 9, 2021

  In telling students about her experiences on September 11, 2001, Julianne Johnson makes herself the primary source—and demonstrates the interplay of history, testimony, and memory.
• Townhouse Notes

  Ashley E. Bowen and Olivia Ricche | Sep 7, 2021

  The Perspectives author pool is slightly more diverse than the AHA's membership, but content skews to covering the United States, current events, and public history.
• Professional Practice and Effort Rewarded

  Kevin Diestelow | Sep 1, 2021

  Should undergraduate students attend the AHA annual meeting? One attendee emphatically says yes.
• Repair and Reconnection

  Shannon Bontrager, Alexandra Hui, Katharina Matro, and Laura McEnaney | Aug 18, 2021

  After the pandemic upended so many of our classroom routines, what will "back to school" mean?

 

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