• Demolishing “Participatory Dictatorship”

  AHA Today, From the National History Center

  Andrew Demshuk | May 21, 2018

  The destruction of Leipzig's University Church in 1968 revealed the insincerity of the German Democratic Republic's rhetoric of "people's democracy," writes Andrew Demshuk.
• AHA Member Spotlight: Paula C. Austin

  AHA Today

  Matthew Keough | Apr 10, 2018

  Paula Austin is assistant professor at California State University, Sacramento. Her research interests include African American history and urban history.
• AHA Member Spotlight: Matthew Spady

  AHA Today

  Matthew Keough | Feb 21, 2018

  atthew Spady is an independent historian and director of the Audubon Park Alliance.
• Subway Stories

  AHA Today

  Zachary Schrag | Jan 4, 2018

  Recent problems with the DC Metro suggest a need for more histories of maintenance on public transit systems and other infrastructure projects, writes Zachary Schrag.

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• The Rise and Fall of DC’s Chinatown

  Shaobin Zheng | Dec 29, 2017

  Even though only 300 Chinese Americans remain in DC's Chinatown, the neighborhood attests to the community's vibrant history in the city, writes Shaobin Zheng.
• #SayHerName

  Brenda E. Stevenson | Apr 28, 2017

  Latasha Harlins’s murder and its contested treatment in the Los Angeles courts led to much of the destruction caused by the 1992 Los Angeles riot/insurrection.
• Cleveland 2016

  John J. Grabowski | Dec 20, 2016

  It has been a memorable year for the city of Cleveland: the Cavaliers won the NBA championship; it h...
• History, Economics, and Food

  Rachel Snyder | Nov 21, 2016

  Applying for college is stressful enough without having to pick a major. That is why after writing a...
• Welfare Reform and the Politics of Race

  Premilla Nadasen | Aug 22, 2016

  Premilla Nadasen on how the racialized rhetoric of work over dependency reflected in the '96 welfare reform act continues to have an impact today.

 

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