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Whose Work Is It Really? Collaboration and the Question of Credit
February 1, 2017
During a roundtable session on collaboration at the annual meeting in Denver last month, the conversation turned to questions of credit for work done jointly with colleagues. One historian revealed th...
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In Denver, They Have 50 Words for Snow: It Happened at AHA17
February 1, 2017
As snow accumulated on the streets of downtown Denver on the first Wednesday of 2017, the hard-nosed social media beat reporters at Channel 9 news noticed #AHA17 trending on Twitter. Clicking the has...
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AHA Council Approves Statement on Right to Nonviolent Political Action
February 1, 2017
The AHA Council, at its January 5, 2017, meeting, approved the following statement: The AHA upholds the rights of students, faculty, and other historians to speak freely and to engage in nonviolent po...
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History Goes Vertical: The Poster Sessions at AHA17
March 1, 2017
I begin with a confession: I had never previously attended an AHA annual meeting poster session. But as incoming president-elect at the Denver convention, I decided to sample a number of different ev...
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Advocacy Briefs: AHA Celebrates Successful Outcomes, Prepares for Future Challenges
March 1, 2017
Earlier this year, the American Historical Association learned of two successful outcomes related to advocacy efforts undertaken in partnership with other individuals and groups. The AHA also released...
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Townhouse Notes March 2017
March 10, 2017
In the last issue of Perspectives on History, the AHA’s director of scholarly communication and digital initiatives, Seth Denbo, made the case for recognizing collaboration in our community. When hist...
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Building a Foundation for the Future: 2016 Equity Award Winner Al Camarillo
March 1, 2017
This interview is the first in a two-part series featuring AHA Equity Award winners Albert Camarillo (Stanford Univ.) and the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. The question...
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Not Just for Graduate Students: Faculty and Career Diversity for Historians
March 1, 2017
How can I share your stories and experiences with my students?” At many other sessions at the AHA annual meeting, this might have been an unremarkable question for a faculty member to pose. But at thi...
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Diversity and Segregation: Progress and Challenges in the Struggle for an Inclusive Historical Community
March 10, 2017
As part of a 2013 AHA Roundtable in Perspectives about the Supreme Court ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which upheld affirmative action in university admissions, Jonathan Zimmerman...
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From Personal to Professional: Collaborative History Blogs Go Mainstream
April 1, 2017
In 2012, when Jacqueline Antonovich, then a first-year graduate student at the University of Michigan, founded the blog Nursing Clio, maintaining it was as simple as “throwing stuff up online.” Five y...